University of Richmond Magazine Winter 2013

The road builders vs. the mapmakers in Peru ď Ž Richmond alumni by the numbers

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OFFICE HOURS Historian and University President Edward L. Ayers answers questions from alumni and students about history, higher education, and the University.

What is one thing you recommend that all students do to be more engaged in the Richmond community? —Mel Shuaipi, ’15 Love the city by enjoying it and making it even better. Go to wonderful places that also happen to be free, such as the Japanese gardens at Maymont, Pony Pasture on the James, and the Virginia Museum of Fine Arts. Then go to the Center for Civic Engagement and find ways to make your own contribution.

Have a question for President Ayers for the spring issue?

Email magazine @richmond.edu.

What do you find the most enjoyable and the most difficult parts of your job?

—Dillon Massey, ’15 The two parts are related. The most enjoyable is seeing people at every stage of their relationship with the University, from prospective students to people who are here for their 65th reunion. The most difficult involves making decisions that are best for the institution in the long run but that affect an experience that means a great deal to students and alumni today.

Please let us know why you are planning to give up one of the core sports of a University sports program. Wouldn’t the University be better off refocusing on building an even more successful [track] program? —Michael Finn, ’02 In a school of our size and selectivity, we cannot have everything we might wish in Division I athletics. Cross-country, the largest part of our running program, will keep all its resources while the roster spots from indoor and outdoor track will permit many of our other sports, men’s and women’s, to become stronger.

Over time, historians’ research frequently appears at odds with eyewitness testimony, whether of victims or perpetrators. How ought this discrepancy be handled?

—Simon Sibelman, R’70, executive director, Virginia Holocaust Museum The truth often lies in the space between people’s memory and the written record.

We can use the discrepancy between eyewitness accounts and other documents

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as a particularly revealing kind of information.

No one sees the totality of a situation, even those who are within it.

As technology, shifting demographics, and rising costs affect higher education, are four-year, residential colleges sustainable?

—Kathryn Masterson, ’96, freelance writer covering higher education These are indeed challenging times for some residential colleges, but the University is particularly fortunate in having far-sighted benefactors, excellent management of our resources over the years, and many students who want to attend. Our financial strategy is sustainable, though we need to continue to be vigilant about living within our means. More broadly, I believe there will be a place for excellent four-year residential colleges because education is more than information transmittal.

The residential experience is transformative on multiple levels, both academic and personal.

What are the three most fundamental characteristics that have enabled the University to grow into a nationally recognized institution? —Charles L. Geshekter, R’65 First, opportunity. That’s been our hallmark from the very beginning. Second, sincere devotion to students. Across all generations, people remember how much the faculty really cared about them, whether they were here in the 1930s or 2010s. Third, inclusivity. The more inclusive we’ve become, the more welcoming we’ve become, the better we’ve become.

This year, we’ll mark the 150th anniversary of the Emancipation Proclamation and the Battle of Gettysburg. What lesser-known milestone is circled on your 2013 calendar?

In April 1863, as prices spiraled upward and supplies of essentials dwindled, white women led the Richmond Bread Riot, breaking into the stores and warehouses of merchants the rioters believed were exploiting them, dispersing only when militia fired on them.

Important struggles of the Civil War took place far from the battlefield.

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Winter 2013

8 2 Around the Lake A columnist, a composer, and a Supreme Court justice walk onto a campus. Plus, Ben Franklin in Boatwright, the Ring Dance, and your feedback.

8 Spider Sports Men’s basketball celebrates its 100th season, a field hockey goal makes ESPN’s top plays, and a new AD settles in.

28 Alumni News Chancellor Heilman picks the best roadside attractions from the seat of his HarleyDavidson, one mentor inspires another, and our man at the London Olympics.

30 Class Connections Your classmates, your news.

52 Vantage Point Notes on leafing through this magazine’s archives.

On the cover Photo by Casey Templeton

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10 The mighty James

A former symbol of environmental neglect is bouncing back, suddenly hip, and wooing the region with its charms. By Kim Catley

16 Summer vocations

Portraits of nine students whose fellowships, internships, and international and research experiences show the real meaning of fulfilling the Richmond Promise. Photos by Casey Templeton

28 Road to ruin?

A proposed road in remote Peru would traverse the indigenous territory of some of the last people on Earth untouched by modern civilization.

George Appleby, ’15, is working to ensure that it never gets built.

By Matthew Dewald

Assistant Vice President for University Communications Lisa Van Riper

Administrative Coordinators Ashley Apodaca Debbie Hardy

Senior Director, Marketing Strategy and Services Jan Hatchette

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Not so black and white Claire Dormer, ’14, works her way through the rack of long, white dresses with a clear image in her mind of the one she is looking for. In a few months, arm in arm with her father, she will walk down the grand staircase of the Jefferson Hotel wearing “the perfect dress.”

“Finding the right dress for Ring Dance is difficult because in the brief moments I have in front of my friends and family on those stairs, I want to feel like my dress is representative of who I am and my personality,” Dormer said. “I want everyone to see what my school has done for me and why I am so proud to be a Westhampton woman.”

In 2015, the centennial anniversary of the event, Ring Dance will feature junior women, sans escorts, in black dresses.

The change from white to black attire, according to a letter from Westhampton Dean Juliette Landphair, resulted from concerns that white for-

ELECTIONS Elephants, donkeys, and Spiders Richmond was front and center in the nation during the 2012 election season.

Hours after the vice presidential debate, MSNBC’s Hardball host Chris

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mal wear, frequently associated with weddings or debutante balls, is costly, impractical, and at odds with the event’s purpose of celebrating women’s academic accomplishments. The lack of escorts, Landphair explained, will further focus the celebration on each individual.

A story on The Collegian’s website about the change prompted a lot of debate, as some alumnae and students voiced displeasure at the changes, while others offered support.

“If you ask Westhampton alumnae from over the decades, you will find that Ring Dance has taken many forms,” Landphair said. “As the dean, my job is to ask how traditions make sense for today and tomorrow’s students. In looking at Ring Dance, we realized that there were students who felt excluded by aspects of the event. At its core, it is a celebration of academic achievement.”

—Anika Kempe, ’13

Matthews did live interviews with attendees at a watch party on campus.

Less than two weeks before the election, NBC’s Lester Holt hosted the Sunday Today show live from an outdoor set in front of Jepson and Ryland halls as Hurricane Sandy rolled in. Both Today and that evening’s NBC Nightly News broadcasts featured an interview with political science professor Ernest McGowen.

For broader perspective, the University welcomed back to campus Marisa Hall Summers, an ordinary citizen who stumped President George

H.W. Bush with a question about the national debt during the first-ever town hall-style debate in 1992 in the Robins Center. Summers, debate host Carol Simpson, and other panelists discussed the debate’s legacy during a campus forum. “The fact that the citizens finally had a voice in the debates is one of the more significant parts of the legacy,” said panelist Diana B. Carlin, co-author of The 1992 Presidential Debates in Focus.

In October, President Edward L. Ayers interviewed Virginia Senate candidates Govs. Tim Kaine and George Allen on stage in the Modlin Center using questions submitted by Richmond students. The event launched the new Sharp Viewpoint Speaker Series, established in honor of Richard L. Sharp. Kaine, a senior distinguished lecturer in the leadership studies and law schools, won the Senate seat.

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Feedback Mixed emotions I wanted to take a moment to tell you how much I enjoyed “His Father’s Son” [Fall 2012]. Paul Brockwell’s words made me both cry and smile, and though I’ll probably never have the privilege of meeting Geoff Weathersby, I feel as if I already know his father and him well. A wonderful recognition of Geoff ’s talent and ambition, and a touching tribute to his incredible dad.

—Bonnie Ellis, mother of Shaye Ellis, ’14 Hopkinton, Mass.

illustration by Katie McBride

Disappointed I am very disappointed in your decision to create such a large amount of plastic waste in delivering to us our recent alumni magazine. It was unnecessary and a very poor environmental precedent.

The bumper sticker certainly is no excuse.

That could have been connected to a perforated page bound into the magazine. I really hope you rethink this approach and remember to be wiser about your environmental footprint.

—Todd Flora, ’93 Santa Monica, Calif.

Biker buddy Recently read the article on Dr. Heilman and his motorcycle journey [“Around the Lake,” Fall 2012]. He became president my senior year at U of R. At age 60, I purchased my second Harley and ride constantly for charities such as March of Dimes, Race for the Cure, Wounded Warriors, etc. I imagined a few more years of riding, but Dr. Heilman gave me encouragement to ride for many years to come.

—Michael Robertson, R’72 Cincinnati Olympic caliber As a recent graduate, I was looking forward to the arrival of my first copy of the

alumni magazine. Having been part of the swim team all four years, I was excited to see a little snippet about the team [“Spider Swimmers Compete in Olympic Trials,” Fall 2012]. I was, however, disappointed when I read the article about current swimmers Lauren Hines and Amalia Kobelja.

I, too, went to the Olympic Trials, except I competed three months earlier in the British Trials in London, as I am not a citizen over here. … I was one of only three swimmers on the team to achieve such a feat.

—Charlotte Brackett, ’12 Cambridge, Mass.

Brackett won seven medals at the 2012 Atlantic 10 Championship, including five golds and two silvers.

At the British Trials, she competed in the women’s open 50m freestyle.

facebook.com/ UniversityofRichmond A 1983 alumni magazine cover with the headline “Computers at a liberal arts school?” drew lively responses when we posted it on Facebook.

Among our favorites: I took a computer science class at UR that year—and went through two more years of journalism classes using UR’s Smith Corona typewriters. … [Professor Michael] Spear taught us to read copy backwards to catch misspellings. I apply all that stuff every day still.

—Steve Dear, R’85 The first computer I ever saw in person (as opposed to a sci-fi movie) was at UR around 1970. It had its own entire ROOM (in Robins, I think). Its room was bigger than the one I shared with my roommate in North Court. … I went to see this oddity in much the same way I would have visited a zoo.

—Judith Thornhill Davis, W’72

Thank you for a wonderful event! A great time was had by all.

—Ashton, L’02, and Andy Harris, L’05 Henrico, Va. They snapped this photo of their daughter Virginia, 3, at the annual Trick-or-Treat Street on Westhampton Green.

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It’s not that darn funny people!!! I REMEMBER those days!!

—Patty McGuire

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Guides

Spaces

A smart buy

Architectural excellence

The University stepped onto the threshold of the nation’s top-10 best value private colleges, according to the latest rankings by Kiplinger’s Personal Finance. UR moved up to 11 on this year’s list and remains among the few colleges and universities offering need-blind admission—not considering an applicant’s ability to pay in the admission decision—and meeting 100 percent of financial need.

The Princeton Review again included UR in its annual guide to the best colleges and universities. The guide ranks Richmond fourth for “Best Career Services,” ninth for “Best Classroom Experience,” 14th for “Most Beautiful Campus,” and 17th for “Best Athletic Facilities.”

The chalkboard sign advertising nutella gelato at Passport Café might be what caught students’ eyes as they walked through the Carole Weinstein International Center this fall, but it was the building itself that the Virginia Society of the American Institute of Architects noticed.

This fall, the society awarded the center its 2012 award for Design Excellence in Contextual Design.

The jury called the center “an outstanding building, clear in its concept and exemplary in its detailing. … The central courtyard is handsomely executed and rich with reference. The building is at once iconic and contextual.”

“I thought that Bobby Kennedy was a new breed of politician. Sadly, he was the last of a breed, the last of the [politicians] who would get up and speak without notes and not consult their political consultants.”

—Joe Klein, TIME Magazine columnist and author, speaking as part of the Jepson Leadership Forum

“I thought, ‘Oh, look at that. Words come out of my mouth.’ And then it was alright, and then I quite enjoyed it.”

—Supreme Court Justice Elena Kagan, on answering her first question when she argued before the court as solicitor general in 2009

“If we don’t allow people to make a living, then people aren’t going to make the work. In the end, we’ll be poorer, not richer. ... People with talent will say, ‘Well, I’m going to go into pharmaceuticals because I can make my money there.’”

—Composer Philip Glass discussing copyright law with law students during the Philip Glass Festival

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“A place like no other on campus” it took 10 pairs of giant scissors to cut the ceremonial ribbon marking the opening of the Student Activities complex (left), a new $5 million student facility just west of north court. Seven sorority cottages, plus one additional cottage and a 1,500-square-foot student center dubbed “The Web,” offer student organizations a common space “to sponsor events, be energized, or interact with others,” said Alison Bartel Keller, director of student activities.

In the media “The Arab Spring produced a complex matrix of political instability,” mimi hanaoka, assistant professor of religion, wrote in a Los Angeles Times editorial in the days following the killing of four Americans in Benghazi, Libya. “Using religion alone to explain what’s happening is counter-factual and counterproductive.”

The New York Times turned to law professor Andy Spalding to explain why a law prohibiting U.S. companies from bribing foreign officials was snaring German, French, Japanese, and other foreign-based companies.

“They are based, in part, in the United States,” he said.

“A culture of compliance may be slower to take in other countries, and many are not aware of the rapid escalation of [these] cases or its broad jurisdictional scope.”

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At the Smithsonian “People are still talking about this,” President Edward L. Ayers told an audience of 200 students at the Smithsonian’s national museum of American history, where he moderated a panel discussion about the Emancipation Proclamation as its 150th anniversary approached. “it shows ... just how deeply entrenched slavery was in this nation and how hard it ... remains to expunge it politically, economically, and socially and spiritually.

We’re still wrestling with it.”

The old aphorism that a thousand-mile journey begins with a single step is the logic behind the “Be One” campaign, a sustainability effort launched this fall. It encourages students to take one new, environmentally friendly step monthly over the year—shorter showers one month, more recycling the next. “When we all make individual changes over time, it adds up,” says the campaign’s website (sustainability.richmond.edu/one).

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Thought Process From ancient Athens ...

A few years ago, seniors in the Robins School of Business gave professor Joe Hoyle two superlatives: “scariest professor” and the one who “cares the most.” In September, Bloomberg Businessweek added a third: one of the country’s “favorite professors” for relying on the Socratic method to teach, of all disciplines, accounting.

“When I told my students that I was never going to lecture again—that I was only going to ask questions—they looked at me like I was from Mars,” the article quoted him saying. “The questions are as weird as I can make them.

The idea is that I’m forcing them to think about things in a different way.”

... to pixelated dystopias Leadership professor Kristin Bezio has heard it all before: Video games encourage violence and sex, make people stupid. Contemporaries said the same things about Shakespeare’s work, she said, “and now it’s considered one of our highest forms of art, which Shakespeare would’ve thought was deeply funny.”

The syllabus for her course on dystopia, revolution, and leadership lists the video game Bioshock alongside George Orwell and The Hunger Games as a required text. “As we study our culture and our ideas of who we are, where we want to go, and what we want to become,” she said, “it’s our popular culture that really shows that.”

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Local

Treasures

What he’s having

Poor Richard in Boatwright

In a small corner of the industrial-scale kitchen of Heilman Dining Center, pastry chef Joshua Carroll carefully assembles a handful of ginger and Asian pear upside down cakes and buttermilk pies.

He’s not making them for the students who crowd D-hall three times a day. The treats are headed downtown, to Richmond on Broad Café.

The café is part of UR Downtown, located at the corner of Seventh and Broad streets, a stone’s throw from the capitol. The facility, which opened in 2009, has become a central hub for experiential student learning and collaboration with nonprofit, government, and legal partners.

And now, after a September ribbon-cutting, it’s the place to get Carroll’s pastries, plus fresh salads, soups, and sandwiches, says chef Matt Lee (left). An emphasis on locally-sourced, fresh foods means the menu changes often.

“That’s one of the aspects I really enjoy about my job,” he said, “being able to create menus based on what’s fresh, what’s local, and what’s seasonal.”

Tucked away in a basement room all but invisible to the undergraduates studying nearby, Lynda Kachurek surveys the books and boxes stacked tidily around her. After years of safekeeping but only intermittent processing, the contents of this room in Boatwright Memorial Library have been known to only a few.

Kachurek, the new head of rare books and special collections, is charged with making its treasures more widely accessible. On this day, she’d returned with a visitor for something that had caught her eye, a folder labeled “Ben Franklin.” That description had left her too nervous to open it when she first saw it.

There are entire shelves of archival boxes that Kachurek has yet to open, their contents known, in some cases, only to whomever last closed them. From a blue box, she retrieved the Franklin folder. Inside, a clear green plastic sleeve held a letter that described in flourishing penmanship the business of an unnamed society. The letter, dated 1744, was signed “B. Franklin.”

“You must be like a kid in a candy store,” her visitor offered.

“Oh, I am,” she smiled.

Next is figuring out whether it’s an original. She has her doubts—and thousands more files to explore.

opposite page: stephen voss; right: kim schmidt

Four reasons to source locally When the café opened, chef Matt Lee estimated that 25 to 35 percent of the menu was locally sourced, a figure he’s working to get as high as 75 percent. Here’s why he says local sourcing makes sense for his customers and all of us: 1. Flavor Produce not locally sourced is often “picked early and ripened on the truck, so they don’t have the benefit of the sunlight and the rain to really develop the flavor.”

2. Community “I think it’s really important to source from local farmers to support them.”

3. Cost “A lot of times, it’s less expensive because you don’t have to pay the travel time,” though farms will sometimes charge more for specialty products, he says.

4. Sustainability “The less time it has to travel, the less impact it has on the environment.”

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STICK WORK Tantalizingly close The field hockey team brought a No. 16 national ranking and an 11-game winning streak to the A-10 championship game, but an 0-5 loss to University of Massachusetts kept them just outside the 16-team NCAA tournament.

Five Spiders were named to the A-10 First and Second AllConference teams, and three made the All Rookie Team, including A-10 Rookie of the Year Taylor Dietrick.

Senior Liesl Schnuck was named Academic All-Conference.

On Senior Day Oct. 21, sophomore Rebecca Barry juggled the ball with her stick to start a sensational goal that made ESPN Sportscenter’s top-10 plays of the day. See it at http://bit.ly/UywNpU.

NEW LEADERSHIP Keith Gill named AD At his introductory press conference, the University’s new director of athletics sported a crisp Richmond necktie as he summed up his mood: “It’s a great day to be a Spider.”

Keith Gill came to Richmond from American

Men’s basketball celebrates 100th season Just 22 years after James Naismith invented basketball, the University of Richmond assembled its first men’s team. To help commemorate this 100th season for Spider hoops, we compiled highlights decade by decade.

1913–14 to ’22–23

On Dec. 4, 1913, the basketball Spiders take the floor for the first time ever against the Richmond Howitzers, a military unit, falling 40-12. The first intercollegiate game played in Richmond is a 38-16 victory over Hampden-Sydney College Jan. 31, 1914. A report in the Richmond Times-Dispatch reads: “Basketball, by the enthusiasm displayed last night, has come to stay at Richmond College.”

A UR vs. UVA game ball, circa 1920s

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1923–24 to ’32–33

Frank Dobson, the father of Spider basketball, closes out his basketball coaching career Feb. 25, 1933, with a 50-40 victory over RandolphMacon College and a 168-112 overall record. “Dobbie,” who also coached the baseball and football teams, guided his basketball squads to four state championships. At times they seemed invincible, winning 21 straight in one stretch.

1933–34 to ’42–43

Coach Malcolm Upshur “Mac” Pitt’s 1934–35 team goes 20-0, the Spiders’ only undefeated season.

The winning streak stretches back to the previous season and into the following season for a total of 24 games, the longest winning streak in school history.

1943–44 to ’52–53

On Feb. 3, 1953, the powerful North Carolina Tar Heels come to town as heavy favorites to play UR in the Benedictine High School gym. In one of Richmond’s most thrilling victories, the Spiders win 87-82 in double overtime behind Warren Mills’ 17 points. A two-time All-State player, he will become the first Spider player to have his uniform number, 23, retired.

1953–54 to ’62–63

Coach Lester Hooker’s 1953–54 team posts a 23-8 record and marches to an undefeated record in 10 games against Virginia Tech, Virginia Military Institute, University of Virginia, and Washington and Lee University, taking the Commonwealth’s “Big Five” title.

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TOUGH CALL Athletics mix changing More than 1,300 fans came out on Senior Night Nov. 2 to watch the men’s soccer team

1963–64 to ’72–73

After a middling decade, Spider basketball is transformed when the new, state-of-the-art Robins Center opens in December 1972.

A little more than two months later, the Spiders foreshadow better years ahead by beating heavily favored Virginia Tech 94-93 in double overtime. Aron Stewart scores 41 points and finishes the season with a 30.2 scoring average, fourth best in the country.

1973–74 to ’82–83

Bob McCurdy scores a UR-record 53 points in a 101-97 doubleovertime win over Appalachian State Feb. 26, 1975, and leads the nation in scoring with a 32.9 average for the season. McCurdy still has six of the top 11 scoring nights in UR history.

take on 19th-ranked VCU. The final result of the tense, highly entertaining matchup—a 3-3 tie with 51 shots on goal between the two teams—was an afterthought for most of the crowd, which came out to support the team as it played the program’s last game.

In September, outgoing athletics director Jim Miller announced the University’s decision to elevate the men’s lacrosse program to Division I status and discontinue men’s soccer and indoor and outdoor track and field after the current academic year. On Oct. 29, the University named Dan Chemotti, offensive coordinator at 2012 national champion Loyola University Maryland, the first head coach of the new lacrosse team, which will begin play in the spring 2014 season.

Call it a mirror image. A Spider squad that finished 3-8 improved to 8-3 this season and earned a share of the Colonial Athletic Association Cup under first-year coach Danny Rocco. Eleven players earned All-CAA honors. After the final game—a 21-14 thriller over WiIliam & Mary to take back the Capital Cup—junior wide receiver Ben Edwards spoke about his new coach’s impact: “Coach Rocco is changing the culture around here starting the moment he stepped in. We just have completely changed our mindsets around here to a winning mindset and that’s what we have been able to do all season.”

1983–84 to ’92–93

Coach Dick Tarrant’s Spiders make the NCAA Tournament’s Sweet Sixteen in 1988 after upsetting fourth-seed and defending champion Indiana Hoosiers and 1983–84 Spiders fifth-seed Georgia Tech. Tarrant’s teams were giant killers, knocking Charles After the program struggles, new Barkley’s Auburn team out of the coach John Beilein turns things 1984 tournament and becoming around in the 1997–98 season the first 15 seed to knock off a with an opening 83-79 doubletwo seed by beating Syracuse overtime win over Virginia, a 73-69 in the 1991 tournament.

23-8 record, the program’s 1986 graduate Johnny Newman 1,000th victory, the Colonial becomes (and remains) the Athletic Association tournament school’s all-time leading scorer championship, and more giant with 2,383 career points; his No. killing as the 14th-seeded Spiders 20 jersey is retired. upset third-seed South Carolina

1993–94 to ’02–03

FRANK STRAUS

University, where as athletic director he oversaw a program that tallied 41 team and individual conference championships and 25 All-Americans. The program’s 250 athletes performed off the field, too, earning a combined 3.36 GPA last academic year.

A similar mix at Richmond— “competing our tails off to try to win championships” plus “making sure everyone gets a good education,” as Gill put it—is what made his new position, and necktie, so attractive, he said.

2003–04 to present

In the 2011 NCAA Tournament, coach Chris Mooney’s 12th-seeded Spiders shock another high seed, this time Vanderbilt, on their way to another Sweet Sixteen. It is the fifth time in program history that the Spiders pull off an upset as a double-digit seed in the NCAA tournament. Senior Kevin Anderson finishes his career with 2,165 points, second on the all-time scoring list.

—Randy Hallman

62-61 in the NCAA tournament.

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Two mountain streams wind along parallel paths approaching Iron Gate, Va., home to fewer than 400 people.

Here, the James River begins to take shape. It continues for nearly 350 miles, twisting and bending and winding, gliding through open farmland and rushing over rocky rapids until meeting its final briny fate as it pours into the expanse of the Atlantic Ocean. In many ways, Richmond’s beginnings are as unremarkable as the head of the James. Expected, even. As our nation’s founders set out across the colony, they were guided inland by the river until a 105-foot descent at the Falls of the James determined that they would go no further.

Building a community alongside the banks of a river was not a new idea. The view from Richmond’s Libby Hill conjured images of England’s Thames River. The river provided food and water, and allowed for travel, shipping, and industry.

“They settled next to the river because of its soothing environment,” says Todd Lookingbill, assistant professor of geography and the environment. “They felt a strong visual connection, they loved the sound of the river, and there were practical reasons—the shipping, power, and industry. We recreated, we extracted water for drinking, we used it for energy.

“And then we threw all of our refuse back into the river.”

AN UNNATURAL COURSE Upstream and downstream. Natural resources and natural stressors. People and water. They’re all connected.

These relationships are also the connection between Lookingbill and his study of watersheds. A watershed is an area where all water—from rain to tributaries to groundwater—drains to a common destination, linking the plants, animals, and people living there. The James River Watershed is 10,000 square miles—nearly a quarter of the state and home to nearly one-third of Virginians.

Lookingbill’s exploration of watersheds brought him to the University of Richmond, where the history and natural landscape of the James River provide a living laboratory for studying the ongoing relationship between residents and their flowing water.

“Throughout the 1800s, the river is basically viewed as a resource,” Lookingbill says. “We were extracting water out and then putting waste back in. In the 1900s, internationally and here in Richmond, we turned our backs to the river a bit.”

He describes the increase of floodwalls that separate citizens from their rivers. He refers to the levees of New Orleans and Mississippi and to other ways of containing water sources. He talks about a human need to control rivers, about attempts to clean them by removing dirt and debris. He even mentions the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers’ practice of straightening rivers.

“They thought it was unnatural for a stream to meander and to bend,” he says. “We had a totally different concept of what rivers should be.”

But stream straightening, river cleansing, and floodwalls were just the beginning of trouble for the James.

Throughout the 1960s and 1970s, Life Sciences Products, a chemical factory in Hopewell, Va., was the sole producer of Kepone, a chemical similar to DDT used for roach and ant traps. The factory released as much as 200,000 pounds of the substance into the environment, including into the James River.

When the practice was exposed, Richmond became the center of an environmental uproar. National media descended, and the James achieved a reputation as one of the dirtiest rivers in America. In 1975, Gov. Mills E. Godwin Jr. shut down all fishing in the James River from Richmond south to the Chesapeake Bay. The restriction would remain for 13 years.

While the James was being flooded with Kepone, the federal government was preparing to pass a landmark environmental bill—the 1972 Clean Water Act—which called for meeting human recreation standards by 1983 and the elimination of toxins and water pollution by 1985.

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Getting there While the Riverfront Development Plan focuses on the area from Rocketts Landing to the Lee Bridge, the University is evaluating its own accessibility to the waters. The river is just a hop, skip, and jump from campus, but the path includes major intersections, few traffic lights, and a difficult descent down the riverbank.

An ecocorridor, which some have jokingly started to call the Spider Trail, is being explored to connect campus and the James River.

“The Clean Water Act was huge,” Lookingbill says. “It can’t be overemphasized. It allowed a lot of the water quality changes that have come about, where you’re not seeing contaminated sewage water float by you.”

The Clean Water Act was a major impetus for changing industrial practices and protecting the city’s greatest natural resource, but getting citizens to see the James River as clean and usable proved to be a more difficult turn to navigate.

IT MOVES ALONG Leadership professor Don Forsyth winds his way through Richmond’s Northside neighborhood, knocking on doors and speaking to any resident who answers. He asks about their awareness of nearby streams and rivers, their attitudes toward water, and their willingness to represent their community.

The simple survey is carefully crafted to answer Forsyth’s biggest

question: If people are aware that they live in a watershed and play a role in its health, will they make changes to protect it?

“That’s the weird thing about water—it moves along,” Forsyth says. “If you do something bad to it, it goes away from you. So the psychology is different than the psychology of destroying land, which will always be there. But the water just keeps going.”

Forsyth found that most residents assumed that all wastewater went to a treatment plant and back into the James. And because the state of the James is greatly improved, they had nothing to worry about.

“If your car has a little leak, you have to put oil in it every couple of months and you don’t worry about it too much,” he says. Most people think the oil that falls on the driveway or parking lot somehow finds its way to a treatment plant. “But that’s not what happens. It gets washed by the rain from the parking lot into the pond or the stream and then into the James.”

But the more residents understood the contamination and the impact of their behaviors, Forsyth discovered,

the more likely they were to take action to keep their neighborhood streams clean.

Forsyth’s insight about personal awareness is something Lookingbill sees following the implementation of the Clean Water Act. “It’s natural to be drawn to water,” he says. “People are made of water. Most have grown up around a river. Most of our cities are on the water. It’s almost unnatural not to embrace it. It takes a very small push to get that momentum going and to get people to re-embrace their natural instincts.”

While awareness is one source of that momentum, some residents are motivated when they recognize their role as a community representative.

In a later study, Forsyth—who specializes in studying group dynamics— found that a sense of community was a critical indicator of a person’s commitment to change.

“We have lots of selves, and sometimes we overlook that group-level self,” he says. “If you can get them to think more about their connections to others, their membership in the larger group, the theory was that we’re engaging that larger self—the

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self that identifies with other people.

The idea was, rather than getting people to change as individuals, it might be better to get them to change as members of the community.”

TO THE SEA GRASSES A few weeks into the semester, Lookingbill takes his students out on the James River on a rafting trip to get a view of the river you can only get up close.

Lookingbill keeps his direction to a minimum. This isn’t about students listening to him lecture about the ecology of the watershed.

The students point out osprey and the occasional bald eagle flying overhead. A young couple sitting on the banks. The wildness of the water moving through the rapids.

As the students follow the course of the river, observations start to shift. They notice exposed rocks, dragonflies, and aquatic vegetation.

“That’s generally how we take in nature,” Lookingbill says. “We look at the grand vista first, but then we focus on the little things that are just as fascinating. Unfortunately, in today’s world, we don’t always have that time.

We move away from the area before we’ve psychologically moved from the big vista to the sea grasses.”

In some ways, Richmond residents are much like Lookingbill’s students.

The Clean Water Act was critical to the rebirth of the ecology of the watershed. One of the greatest success stories is the dramatic return of the bald eagle population along the James River, which increased from zero breeding pairs in the 1970s to 174 pairs in 2011. Sturgeon, which were thought to be extinct in the Chesapeake Bay and along the Atlantic Coast, have also returned. A heron rookery is perched downtown, and in 2009, a manatee was spotted swimming in Richmond.

As natural life gained new ground, city residents started to pay attention.

A camera pointed on a pair of bald eaglets captured the attention of nearly two million viewers from February to June 2012. Their hatching in mid-March even rivaled local interest in the NCAA basketball tournament runs by the Spiders and Virginia Commonwealth University.

“At one point, they had to shut down the site because the eaglets

were fighting each other,” Lookingbill says. “It’s a natural part of the biology that they compete for the food that the parents bring back, and one gets bigger than the other and starts to bully the other one around.

They both made it, which is the great part. It was a happy ending.”

The watershed has also taken shape as an outside classroom for many students. Biology classes frequently test water quality on campus, including the lake, Little Westham Creek, and along the Gambles Mill trail, and look for the presence of macro-invertebrates—a key indicator of a healthy water source. The experience helps students answer questions about ecology, biology, geography, culture, economics, history, and community.

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Water, water everywhere

nagement professor It’s the first day of ma r seminar, Water: Andy Litteral’s first-yea t d Policy. He hands ou Economics, Politics, an ple sim few r asking a a single piece of pape ter do you use a wa ch mu questions: How last water bill? Where month? What was your from? For most of the does your water come ir first college class, the students, this is their , and their first college first college professor assignment. diately, while others Some start writing imme h a nervous glance extend their hands wit t if I don’t know the around the room. “Wha answer?” some ask. w,” Litteral responds.

“Just write what you kno y’ll be discussing A few weeks later the vatization of public hydraulic fracking, pri d religious implicawater infrastructure, an resolution. They begin tions in water conflict of water extend well to see that the issues and beyond the banks past the end of the tap es. of the rivers like the Jam

the James River Park System as a National Natural Landmark.

The NPS is still considering the proposal, but Lookingbill has made his decision.

“The history of this river is unrivaled,” he says. “This is America’s founding river. The megafauna is spectacular on this river. To have nesting bald eagles in the city is incredible.

“One of the things that’s really special about the James is how much protected land we have actually downtown. Most of the river access is in the city proper.

In most cities, people leave the city to go outdoors and recreate—they go out to the suburbs and the hinterlands. But here, we go into the city.”

A RIVER RENAISSANCE Drive from Southside Richmond into downtown today, and you’ll cross over the James River along the Lee Bridge, approaching Belvidere Street.

To the right, you’ll see an urban skyline of shining

modern architecture. To the left, the 150-year-old tombstones of Hollywood Cemetery rise out of the surrounding wilderness. Walk across the footbridge to Belle Isle and you’ll just as likely be next to a group of tattooed hipsters with coolers of beer as a young family out for an afternoon picnic. You’ll cross paths with hikers and bikers, fishermen and kayakers, naturalists and historians. And you’ll be hard-pressed to find a patch of unoccupied rock.

Richmonders of all walks of life are rediscovering what it means to live along the banks of the James.

The city planning commission is using this enthusiasm as a catalyst in developing the Downtown Master Plan and the recently approved Richmond Riverfront Plan.

Commissioner Amy Howard, who is also director of the University’s Bonner Center for Civic Engagement, explains that when the city looked to residents to form a collective vision for the future of the city’s riverbanks, the response was overwhelming. In public forums, citizens talked about their love for the river,

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the wide-ranging variety of activities they engage in, and the challenges of accessing the river.

“The general consensus from the public was what an asset and a jewel the river is, and a deep and shared desire to make it easier to get to, use, and appreciate,” Howard says. “It’s really not all that easy to navigate. There are a lot of people who don’t know where Texas Beach is and who don’t know that you can paddleboard or kayak. We wanted to know, ‘How can we make it accessible to anyone who wants to get their feet wet?’”

The plan defines regions for wildlife, urban riverfronts, green spaces, recreation, and parks. It will accommodate everything from bird watching, education, and kayaking to festivals, restaurants, and art.

“When you’re on I-95, you cannot even begin to imagine that such a beautiful, natural resource like the James River is running through the center of the city,” Howard says.

“Richmond has unlimited potential as a river city. Unlimited.”

Richmond residents also showed they have swagger when it comes

to the city’s river. This summer, into the water, but it’s a cleaner Outside magazine set out to find and more natural dirtiness.

“America’s most progressive, It’s what it’s supposed to be. adventurous, and livable river And Richmond is exactly towns.” The frontrunners were what it’s meant to be—a well-known river destinations like river city.

Nevada City, Calif., and Durango, Colo. Outside writer Jon Stillman considered his stop in Richmond a courtesy visit.

“N o place we knew so strong, so pleasa “I figured I’d end nt up writing about and delightful in Virginia for which we Missoula, Mont., or Hood River, Ore.,” called it Non-such.” he writes. “I’ve got the Rocky Mountain —John Smith describing the site of Rich mond, superiority complex originally known as Nonesuch Place when it comes to rivers; I knew Richmond was a candidate, but I didn’t seriously consider the possibility of Eastern Kim Catley is a writer and editor in the time zones.” office of University communications.

But with a Facebook competition This story carried her across each of part of the mix, Richmonders Richmond’s bridges and off the beaten rallied and won the title, proving path for a new outlook on both the what everyone here already knew: river and the River City.

Richmond is the best river town in America.

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“lurking behind a roman numeral, an Arabic numeral, and two lower-case letters in parentheses,” as President Edward L. Ayers joked at Colloquy in September, is a promise. The text is so buried, the language so dry, that it’s easy to miss.

But the promise is significant. It says that Richmond will provide students with opportunities for summer internships and research, either domestically or abroad, regardless of their financial circumstances.

It’s not that students don’t have these experiences in the summers and throughout the year. Many do, every semester across campus. You’ll meet nine of them in the pages that follow, some funded by the University and some not.

Tucked away in the University’s strategic plan,

Richmond.edu/challenge

With more funding, all students who want them could be having such unique, powerful experiences.

Graduate school and career opportunities for students are increasingly being shaped by what they learn and do beyond the classroom, whether in a lab or a library, in an office or the field. Our admission policies are need-blind; opportunity for students on campus should be too. That’s the power of the promise.

Stories by Matthew Dewald Photos by Casey Templeton

Summer Vocations

The Role Model Ronwyn Pritchett, ’13 Martinsville, Va.

Look at that face. Big, friendly, warm. Ronwyn Pritchett has the personality to match—outsized, easy-going, full of life. So when he tells you that as a kid his mouth ran ahead of his maturity and got him in all kinds of trouble, it’s not hard to imagine.

For most of Pritchett’s life, his dad has been in a care facility, the victim of a stroke. After eighth grade, Pritchett found the male role models he craved in his coaches and became a three-sport star, proudly opening dozens of letters from bigtime football programs by his sophomore year.

Then one day his principal told him, “You know you’re not going to college, right?” He didn’t know, but she was right.

His grades were barely enough for high school.

He buckled down, excelled, and earned a spot at UR, where he devotes his talent and drive to helping other boys growing up without strong male role models.

Through a program called Higher Achievement, he spent the summer teaching social studies at Henderson Middle School in Richmond’s Northside.

His gregarious personality caught students’ attention and kept learning fun, but he also offered consistency, discipline, and high expectations, qualities he’s researching as part of a thesis.

“You can’t save everyone, but you can’t give up on anyone,” he says. He knows what he’s talking about.

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The Investigator Margot Hillyer, ’14 Atlanta

Sparkly magic wands. Girly hair clips. Beads, necklaces, and charms. If she had the mind to do it, Margot Hillyer could’ve thrown the best princess party on campus.

What she actually did was far more interesting: dropping the toys into nitric acid, atomizing them, and using atomic absorption spectrophotometry to analyze their parts per million and billion of cadmium, arsenic, and lead. More than a quarter of the toys she tested exceeded federal limits. When ingested by children, they can, and sometimes do, kill.

The toys she tested—bargain store specials, the cheapest of the cheap—often wind up in the hands of kids from low-income families, giving her research a social imperative. She is thinking scientifically and socioeconomically for the long term, too, contemplating an M.D./Ph.D. career path that offers a broadbased approach to children’s health.

“There is not one path to being a doctor,” she says. “We don’t necessarily want doctors who are superscientists. We need people who are well-rounded. The best candidate might be someone who took the time to understand what people are actually buying and why it’s making them sick.”

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The ouTdooRSMan John Remmes, ’15 Rockland, Mass.

Working in a lab in Gottwald, John Remmes made a critical discovery: he hated being cooped up indoors all day.

So he spent his summer outdoors pointing a gPS unit at trees on the Westhampton side of campus in a research project that built on two interdisciplinary semesters of calculus, physics, chemistry, biology, and computer science. he and research partner Taylor holden, ’15, recorded the trees’ height, diameter, species, and other data. They mapped 694 trees in cultivated areas of campus and did statistical sampling of 151 more trees in the woods along Westhampton lake.

What they found initially surprised Remmes. cultivated areas generally offered more biodiversity and trees with more carbon content. Upon reflection, it made sense. cultivated trees get more care and face less competition; they should thrive. another discovery was more predictable: after a summer outside, he still liked being outside. For a student undecided on a major, it’s a key finding for shaping what’s next for him.

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The Organizer Amanda Lineberry, ’14 Mechanicsville, Va.

Amanda Lineberry has a photo on her laptop she absolutely loves. You can’t see the face of the boy in the image as he walks away in a black ballcap, white T-shirt, and camouflage shorts. What catches her eye is his bright blue Transformers 3D backpack.

She points at the photo. “This kid came to this community celebration and has this backpack because of something I did.” As she finishes the sentence, she is pointing right at her own heart.

It’s a heart that has grown fond of a community called Greater Fulton on the eastern outskirts of Richmond. Though Lineberry grew up a 15-minute drive away, she’d never been in the struggling community until her summer fellowship with the Neighborhood Resource Center of Greater Fulton.

There, she saw steps forward and a few missteps in the work of community organizers. The backpack was one of hundreds of school supplies distributed during a celebration she planned, doing everything from filing parade permits to hiring cops and recruiting a fire truck for the parade.

“The experience I had this summer made my education real. It’s no longer in a book,” she says.

“My summer in Fulton has blended everything together and messed everything up and made it more beautiful.”

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The ChRonICLeR Shir Bodner, ’12 Woodbury, n.Y.

“When did you start to think of yourself as american?” Shir Bodner asked the 80-year-old woman in front of her.

The woman, lena, was one of roughly 800 refugees who fled the Soviet Union as it crumbled, resettling in the Richmond area with the help of Jewish Family Services.

Twenty years later, Bodner was interning with JFS to help launch a film project and museumquality exhibit documenting the resettlement effort. lena, the first interview subject, had welcomed the crew into her home with the warmth of a grandmother.

Bodner had prepared diligently, but she wasn’t prepared for lena’s answer: When they closed the door of the airplane in moscow, lena said, the flight attendant announced that they were now under the protection of the U.S. government. in that moment, she felt american. everyone in the living room teared up as she told the story. on Bodner’s mind that day was, no doubt, her own grandmother, now 97, who emigrated from the Ukraine many decades earlier.

“This makes politics personal,” Bodner says.

“This intertwines with my family story.”

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The Designer Kadeem Alphanso Fyffe, ’13 Durham, N.C.

“Why would I rush something that is meaningful to me?”

Kadeem Alphanso Fyffe asks a visitor to his Modlin Center studio.

What is more meaningful to Fyffe than anything is fashion design. At UR, he’s cut his own path through the curriculum to explore it. That initiative brought him to a semester in Italy and backstage at Milan Fashion Week, the high holy days of the Italian fashion calendar. He fitted and photographed models, kept up with rapid-fire demands in Italian, yet remained unfazed by the whirlwind.

As he looked around at top models and up-and-coming designers, another question emerged: What does it mean that I’m so close to these people?

“It reminded me that this is what I’m supposed to be doing,” he says back in his Modlin studio. “My focus is on shaping myself as a designer and making sure everything I do relates to that.”

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The PLaYeR Jolmi Minaya, ’13 Lawrence, Mass.

In life and on the mound, Spider pitcher Jolmi minaya is a risk-taker.

With a fastball that tops 90 mph and a slider that makes hitters look foolish, he lays it on the line with every pitch. he notched seven strikeouts in relief in 2012, but he also walked seven batters. Risk and reward. in another uniform, his corporate suit and tie, he’s as cautious as they come, pouring over balance sheets as an intern with KPmg, a big-four accounting firm with whom he spent the summer in Boston analyzing financial statements on an auditing team and making networking connections for the future. minaya’s job was to make sure everything lined up, that the financial T’s were crossed and the i’s dotted. he lends that expertise to a Richmond community health center, where he volunteers his accounting skills and serves as a Spanish and Portuguese language translator between doctors and patients.

That triple threat—internship experience, competitive instincts, and a Richmond education—sets him up to be a player on any field.

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The LIGhThouSe KeePeR LaShonda Hanna, ’13 nassau, Bahamas

When an infant entered this world merely drug-addicted but not blind, that was a victory for laShonda hanna. during 400 hours of a summer fellowship at the drug treatment clinic Rubicon, she took what she could get. There was little on offer in the lives shattered by drug addiction, poverty, crime, and broken families that surrounded her.

What kept her up until dawn many nights, and kept her going the next day, was the unshakable knowledge that she might have been one of her clients. every woman she met had been introduced to drugs by a boyfriend. That’s the story of hanna’s mother, a woman who, despite an unstable life of abuse, drug-ridden environments, and hiV, instilled in hanna the discipline and drive that landed this unlikely young Bahamian girl in a place like UR. mom died when hanna was 13. “everything she ever taught me clicked when she passed,” hanna says.

So in the halls and quiet corners of Rubicon, hanna didn’t see her mom in just the clients. She saw her mom in herself—smart, determined, resourceful, driven, unwilling to quit. With her internship and studies steering her to public health, she is determined to be for others what her mom was for her: a beacon of light that shows a better way.

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The Influencer Kait Walsh, ’13 Ridgewood, N.J.

Kait Walsh assumed her Klout score was going down, and she didn’t like it. What? You don’t have a Klout score?

Then it may be hard to sympathize with her broader summer drama: three whole weeks without social media.

Yes. Brutal.

In truth, it wasn’t a torture-the-interns moment at Mullen, the A-list Boston advertising agency. She and the other Mullen interns denied themselves social media as a way of better understanding how millennials use it and what this means for advertisers, findings they distilled in a white paper. Walsh also worked on a Google campaign from start to finish and set up the playing field for creatives on other projects based on the research she did in the strategic planning department.

Still curious about that Klout score? In your shoes, millennials would Google it. Just ask Walsh. She’s the expert now.

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Road to Ruin?

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By Matthew Dewald

“We will travel along the king’s highway and not turn to the right or to the left until we have passed through your territory.”

Chris Fagan/Upper Amazon Conservancy

—Numbers 20:17 When the Romans, after the rebellion of Spartacus, crucified 6,000 rebellious slaves along a 200-kilometer stretch of the Appian Way, the message was as clear as the highway beneath them: All roads lead to Rome. Whether that network embodied conquest or progress depended largely on your point of view. Centuries later, Vandals, Visigoths, and others would follow those roads back to the crumbling heart of the empire.

The roadway as artery of development remains a familiar refrain today, one being sung loudly by Miguel Piovesan, an Italian priest in a town called Puerto Esperanza carved out of the Peruvian Amazon. For more than a decade, he has championed the construction of a 170-mile roadway connecting his town, currently accessible only by charter plane, with wider Peru.

He argues that for the 1,300 people of Puerto Esperanza, a road would bring down exorbitant prices for goods and services. It would mean better health care, education, and electricity. It would strengthen Peruvian national identity in these Amazonian hinterlands. A bill he’s pushing is currently before the Peruvian national congress; it declares the road “a public necessity and a national interest priority.”

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Alto Purús National Park and Communal Reserve takes its name from the Purús River, one of the Amazon’s main tributaries. It is Peru’s largest national park, 2.7 million hectares, an area roughly the size of Massachusetts. Among its treasures are jaguars, monkeys, and peccaries, and the majestic mahogany and cedar trees that shelter them. The region’s rivers are home to rare pink dolphins and giant otters. Much of the region remains little explored and poorly understood. World Wildlife Fund, which worked with the government to create the park, calls it “the Amazon in its original state.”

That “original state” includes humans, too, at least eight distinct indigenous groups and an unknown number of people living in what researchers have come to call “voluntary isolation.”

To understand what is meant by such a term, it is helpful to spend some time with reporter Scott Wallace, which a couple of hundred UR students did one September evening in Jepson Hall. Projecting maps and photos on a large screen behind him, Wallace held students spellbound for an hour as he described a grueling 2002 trek through the rainforest with legendary Brazilian explorer Sydney Possuelo, then director of the country’s department of unknown tribes, an office within the country’s National Indian Foundation.

Their mission was to document the territory of the flecheiros, or Arrow People, called so because they were known to meet intrusions by outsiders with a hail of poisontipped arrows. As with all tribes in voluntary isolation, almost nothing is known about them: not their way of life, nor their ethnic group, nor even what language they speak.

Such people have been called “uncontacted,” as when in 2011 the BBC publicized dramatic footage of one group filmed from an aircraft flying a kilometer away. (We link to the video at magazine.richmond. edu.) On the ground below in a clearing of thatched huts, nearly naked figures in red body paint stare and point at the aircraft above.

What they thought of it is anyone’s guess.

But “uncontacted” is a misnomer, as Wallace “A road is progress in every direction,” reads a pro-road sign in Puerto Esperanza.

The proposed road would connect it to towns in Peru, Brazil, and Bolivia.

pointed out to students and in his book The Unconquered. Such tribes have met the outside world, but with disastrous results. The trouble started with the trees around them.

An explosion of demand for rubber in the late 19th century sent prospectors scrambling to two regions of the world: the Congo and the Amazon. In the Congo, King Leopold II of Belgium set up a private colony, killing 10 million Africans in the process of extracting the region’s riches. In the Amazon, traders went up the river and its tributaries and, when those areas were depleted, farther inland. To tap the rubber, they needed labor, so they enslaved entire villages at the point of a gun, but their most potent weapon, it turned out, was the germs they carried. Wallace reports that in one region, the local population dropped from 50,000 to 8,000 in just five years; one observer documenting such scenes coined a new term: “crime against humanity.”

Today’s voluntary isolated people are thought to be descendants of Indians who scattered deep into the forests rather than submit. Their contact with outsiders can be just as violent now as when their ancestors fled. The jungles today shelter illegal loggers, poachers, and drug traffickers with well-earned reputations for violence. As recently as August, Brazilian prosecutors filed an indictment ac-

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opposite page, bottom: Chris Fagan/Upper Amazon Conservancy above, left: David Salisbury; Above, right: © Gleison Miranda/FUNAI/Survival

Thousands of miles north, in a lab on the third floor of UR’s Carole Weinstein International Center, is one of the road’s unlikeliest skeptics: sophomore George Appling. The soft-spoken 19-year-old with thick, black hair and halting Spanish is throwing the brakes on the roadway project with one simple tool: a map.

His map, and the analysis that accompanies it, landed him and his professor in the middle of the debate over this road and the Amazon rainforest through which it cuts, a debate that will also decide the fate of some of the last people on the planet untouched by modern global society.

opposite page, bottom: Chris Fagan/Upper Amazon Conservancy above, left: David Salisbury; Above, right: © Gleison Miranda/FUNAI/Survival

cusing gold prospectors of helicoptering into Venezuela and massacring as many as 80 Yanomami Indians. Such incidents explain not only why such tribes avoid contact but also why they recognize the sound of gunfire.

As Wallace notes, governments in the region used to pursue a policy of peaceful contact with such groups, leaving gifts of axes and metal pots in the forest to woo them into peaceful contact before less scrupulous forces got to their territories. The results were often catastrophic for the Indians: disease, poverty, dependence, and the destruction of their ways of life.

Possuelo, the Brazilian explorer who led Wallace’s expedition to map the territory of the flecheiros, pushed a new policy of avoidance and protection in the 1980s. Create protected areas, keep outsiders out, and let the indios bravos initiate contact on their own time and terms.

As he told Wallace, “The uncontacted tribes have everything to lose and nothing to gain from contact with us.”

The assumptions of this Brazilian policy were applied in the creation of the Purús National Park and Communal Reserve in Peru.

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If you’re looking for an antidevelopment crusader, a shaggy-haired, wideeyed dreamer of an environmentalist, George Appling is not your man. He

dresses crisply and speaks with a measured tone that is more scientist than evangelist. He came to Richmond from a large high school in Austin, Texas—“almost as big as UR,” he says—to study business.

“I wanted to go to a top business school,” he said. “My dad has always been a businessman. He’s in commercial real estate development.”

Appling is also a self-described “huge outdoorsman” with a love of fishing and climbing, so when he looks at the tensions between development and conservation, he seeks balance.

“Everything is kind of a tradeoff,” he said. “You have to understand the costs and the benefits. I definitely don’t believe that all conservationists are good and developers are bad. Some lands are more worth preserving than others.”

Richmond being Richmond, he knew he’d have the opportunity to balance his business major with his environmental interests, which is how he found himself in a seminar on climate change during his first semester.

From there, he started thinking about staying on campus for the summer to do research, so he researched professors and blindly emailed a handful of them to ask about opportunities. One of those messages landed in the inbox of geography professor David Salisbury. If you’re interested in a summer project, Salisbury told him, take the

geographic information systems (GIS) class in the spring. No promises, but there might be something.

Left to right: An Asháninka Indian navigates the Alto Purús River during a scientific expedition in the Peruvian Amazon.

The carved paddles, masks, and arrows that line the walls of David Salisbury’s office tell the story of a lifelong love of maps and travel.

Salisbury spent the summers of his youth as a camper and then counselor in the Appalachians, and in college traveled to Spain and Morocco before signing up for a two-year stint with the Peace Corps in Guatemala. He came back to a job as a teacher and coach at a wellheeled Maryland prep school but kept traveling, primarily to Central and South America. The temptation to dive into a career that would keep his head, and sometimes his body, in the Amazon would prove too much to resist.

In graduate work at the University of Florida and then the University of Texas, he discovered a natural academic home for his fascinations: geography. Along the way, he added fluency in Portuguese to his Spanish and focused his interest on that part of the Amazon that straddles the Brazil-Peru border. As part of his doctoral research, he traveled by helicopter, on rivers, and along trails used by indigenous forest dwellers, smugglers, and drug traffickers to help map a proposed national park.

Uncontacted Indians living in Brazil near the Peru border. This image was taken from an airplane by Brazil’s Indian Affairs Department as part of a campaign to prove such tribes’ existence and further their protection.

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Maps, he would come to conclude, meant more than information. They were tools of power.

“Blank spaces on official maps could represent a state strategy of ignoring resident indigenous populations in order to maintain remote lands for national resource exploitation,” he wrote, citing another researcher, in the introduction of his dissertation.

By the dissertation’s conclusion, he had drawn some of his own: “Local people who are obscured by emptiness or otherwise cartographically misrepresented on official maps cannot easily contend against the map wielder.”

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George Appling didn’t know any of that when he walked into GIS class that spring and then signed on as Salisbury’s summer research fellow.

with Salisbury in the spatial analysis lab painstakingly constructing maps of the proposed Purús road’s route.

They got help and steady updates about the road project from partners at the Upper Amazon Conservancy in Peru.

“As I was going through and learning more, I was motivated to work harder,” Appling said. “The harder I worked on it, the more I learned.”

After 11 drafts, he produced a research poster with the most detailed spatial analysis of the Purús road project that anyone had ever attempted.

On his map, the road looks innocuous enough. From Puerto Esperanza, where the Italian priest lives, a red dotted line runs straight south and then wraps generally east around the Brazilian border to another dot on the map called Iñapari.

Roadways from Iñapari radiate out

“The uncontacted tribes have everything to lose and nothing to gain from contact with us.”

He didn’t know the first thing about Peru, its ecology, or its indigenous people, let alone ones in voluntary isolation.

“I would never have thought there might be people like that anywhere,” he said.

Using sophisticated GIS technology and a database built over many years, he spent the summer working

into wider Peru, as well as nearby Brazil and Bolivia.

A second version of the map is more ominous. Studies show that in the Brazilian Amazon, two-thirds of deforestation has occurred within 50 kilometers of paved roads, so Appling has shaded a 50-kilometer buffer zone around his red dotted line to illustrate just how far-ranging the

road’s effects could be. Throughout this zone, the road could disrupt migration patterns, introduce pollutants, invite invasive species, and facilitate transport of drugs, timber, wild animals, and other contraband.

The effects cross national boundaries. Of the 103 rivers and streams the road crosses, 69 percent flow into Brazil, the rest into Bolivia; 40 percent of the entire buffer zone is in Brazilian territory. The effects also cross other boundaries. Nearly 30 percent of the buffer zone covers titled indigenous territories or territory reserved for isolated populations.

“We have the saying that a picture is worth a thousand words,” Salisbury said, “but a map is worth more than that. People knew that roads were bad for a variety of reasons, but no one had pulled together the latest scientific literature and enumerated all the impacts of roads. … It’s a very simple process, frankly, but no one’s modeled these impacts on this road.”

Appling’s poster also weighed the economic and national identity arguments being put forward by the priest, politicians, and others supporting the road. At $1 million per kilometer of construction costs, plus maintenance on top of that, it didn’t make economic sense, he concluded.

It wouldn’t build Peruvian national identity when 80 percent of the Purús population opposed it and the road would invite outsiders and lawlessness.

When they shared the analysis with Peru’s Ministry of the Environment, the Upper Amazon Conservancy, and other Peruvian partners, they got in return gratitude, compliments, and before long,

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opposite page: courtesy of George Appling. Above: George Appling and David Salisbury/University of Richmond Spatial Analysis Lab

As Peruvians from indigenous areas look on (left), Salisbury and Appling (far right) testify before Peru’s Congress at the legislative palace in Lima.

The shaded red area of Appling’s map shows the breadth of the proposed road’s impact.

a stunning invitation: Would they come to Peru’s capital, Lima, in two weeks to present their findings to the Peruvian Congress?

opposite page: courtesy of George Appling. Above: George Appling and David Salisbury/University of Richmond Spatial Analysis Lab

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For Appling, the trip to Lima was a blur. At a five-hour session in the legislative palace, he found himself sitting on a congressional panel with an indigenous woman in a headdress explaining the harm the proposed road would bring to her people. The congressman sponsoring the road bill was there too, waving a copy of the constitution at them—“I think he was looking for a photo op,” joked Salisbury—plus numerous activists, government ministers, and others. Appling, whose Spanish is passable but not dexterous, mostly looked on and took it all in as Salisbury walked through their research.

Before the pair left, they would also meet with the U.S. Agency for International Development at the American embassy and with the

Nature Conservancy, a local partner.

Appling stayed a day longer than his professor, using the time to wander around markets and take in the local culture. He had arrived in the wee hours of a Friday morning; by Monday afternoon, he was back on campus.

“For George, this was an incredible growth experience,” Salisbury said. “Here’s a young man with limited experience in life and in the subject but who took initiative as a first-year student. ... He realizes that there’s no guarantee he’ll ever have an experience like this again, and he’s thankful for the opportunity, but I think, ultimately, a lot of people are thankful to him: indigenous activists, conservationists, environmental activists.”

Whether the road will be built remains a political question as unpredictable as the winding path of the Purús River. If Appling’s analysis helps preserve the region’s biodiversity and the people who de-

pend on it, he’ll be able to point at a map and say that a place he’s never been and a people he’s never seen will remain, for the time being at least, beyond the legacy of contact, decimation by disease, extermination by violence, labor exploitation, and loss of culture that have shaped the experience of indigenous people throughout the Americas since Columbus arrived in the 15th century.

They will remain in the forest, a vestige and a mystery.

In turn, they will know nothing about his efforts, his world back in Richmond, or even him.

“These people are not going to shake your hand,” Salisbury said.

“You’re not going to get any recognition from the people, but it’s for the best.”

Matthew Dewald still carries in his wallet the 1,000 cruzados note he carried back from a monthlong trip to Curitiba, Brazil, more than two decades ago.

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favorite State

On the rOad …

North Dakota It defied his expectations. “I thought of the Dakotas as cold weather places,” Heilman says. “But it was beautiful. It was warm.

It wasn’t hot. It was pleasant for riding.”

University chancellor Bruce heilman can’t sit still. Last issue, we reported on his 9,000-mile journey atop his harleydavidson around the lower 48 states. now he’s back and eager to talk about his greatest hits from the road.

True to form, heilman already has mapped out his next route, which hits eight states he didn’t ride through on this or an earlier trip. in his words, “Life after 80 is even more fulfilling than the 80 years before. And a motorcycle is better than a psychiatrist.”

favorite roadSide reading Tourism information Heilman’s favorite acquisitions were the brochures at state welcome centers. The reading got Heilman reflecting on borders and regions.

go-to roadSide grub McDonald’s or Dairy Queen Spotting the familiar golden arches off so many interstate exits made him feel like he never left home. And sometimes a banana split from Dairy Queen was just what he needed to refresh after a long haul.

moSt memorable mealS Ones given by others Everyone from alumni to complete strangers insisted that Heilman hand over the check and be treated. Then there was his WWII buddy. Heilman detoured 50 miles off the interstate in Connecticut to see him for the first time in 65 years. “We sat down and reverted back to being 18- and 19-year-old WWII Marines just like that.”

coldeSt SWim North Pole, Alaska A 5K open-water swim in the chilly waters of Chena Lake

moSt memorable SWim Honolulu, Hawaii Big waves, strong winds, and water only 2 feet above the coral reefs in some places

higheSt SWim Los Alamos, N.M. An aquatics center 7,245 feet above sea level, one of the highest-altitude Olympic pools in the world

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fineSt hoSpitality Portland, Ore., and Milwaukee, Wis. Heilman received many warm welcomes. Among the highlights were lunch in Portland with Beth Jordan, B’74, and dinner in Milwaukee with Betsy and Terry Royals, W’79 and R’80, who met as cheerleaders at the old football stadium and were surprised to get a call from the man who signed their diplomas. Executives from HarleyDavidson in Milkwaukee also hosted Heilman for a dinner, and one of the Davidsons guided him through their museum.

beSt Stretch of highWay Interstate 10 across the southern U.S. “Traveling through Louisiana I was amazed that highway I-10 was built on stilts like adult tinker toys,” Heilman wrote in his travel log. After miles of bridge over swampland, he spent his longest days covering the expanse of Texas prairies.

desKMates beSt city

How to succeed in business

A few years ago, Grant Garcia, ’06 and GB’09, was a graduate student Chicago’s downtown pairing undergraduates with mendrive dazzled, but Philly pleasantly surprised him. tors when he realized how much he “I’d never thought of could benefit from a mentor himPhiladelphia as anything self. his goal was to work in sales but an industrial city,” and trading in new York, and he Heilman says. “I didn’t needed advice. see that when I rode through. I thought it was That’s where Joe o’Brien, R’89, a beautiful place.” came in. not only is he head of equity sales and trading at BB&T capital markets here in Richmond, but he had worked in new York and taken many Robins School of Business students under his wing.

A few days each week, Garcia SWim that got aWay drove downtown, sometimes Orlando, Fla. before dawn, to sit at o’Brien’s From the release form: “We provide all alligators for free … When you do desk learning the markets, a an open-water swim, you enter the relationship they continued for food chain.” almost two years, with Garcia attending team meetings, contributing research, and getting interviewing advice. now in sales and trading at credit-Suisse in new York, Garcia follows o’Brien’s example. he’s banded together with seven alumni at his firm to mentor more Richmond students.

“The program gave me a head start. Joe went way out of his way to make sure i was learning,” Garcia says. “he and his team taught me what it’s like to work on a desk, talked to me about the business.

They helped me with the interview meant at least an hour-long workout, process. he gave me all the tools i open-water swim, or competition. needed to eventually be successful.”

Boggs has swum for as long as he For more information about the can remember. he was competing mentoring program, go to robins by age 8 and swam for coach norris .richmond.edu/careers/mentor.html.

Eastman while at Richmond. Like Bruce heilman, he already is thinking about his next goal, which might be swimming 60 countries by age 60.

Philadelphia, Pa.

… and in the Water Lawyer J.c. Boggs, R’84, made waves by swimming in all 50 states before turning 50 on Aug. 3. he squeezed many states into business trips that took him around the country and earned him the lawyer of the year award from the Republican national Lawyer’s Association. he had one rule: each swim had to be with a competitive master’s team. That

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ChaLLenGes 100 for 1 Annual Giving kicked off its “100 for 1 challenge” in november, helping ensure that each Richmond student can spend at least one summer pursuing an internship, faculty-guided research project, or international experience while at Richmond.

Research shows that these opportunities are a major determinant in student success after graduation. To help, go to richmond.edu/challenge with our heartfelt thanks.

Becca Previs, ’05, painted this twilight landscape of the Westhampton Lake as a student to de-stress after the grind of papers and lab work. Now she’s finishing her medical residency at Duke and will start a fellowship in gynecologic oncology in Houston. She insists she’s no artist, but we’ll let her work speak for itself. What’s new with you? Email your news to classconnections @richmond.edu.

bOOKs these bOOts a re M ade FOr … nancy Sinatra likely would approve of the boots that arrived on the doorstep of Richard Gouldin iii, ’05, from the Lucchese Boot co. in El Paso, Texas. Gouldin put months of planning into the custom-made crocodile and kangaroo leather kicks. That effort spurred a conversation around our office about what other custom gear might be out there. Let us know how you show your Spider pride at magazine @richmond.edu.

Photos welcome.

Walter S. Griggs Jr., R’63, L’66, G’71, The Collapse of Richmond’s Church Hill Tunnel.

Forty years ago as a student at Richmond, Griggs began research for his thesis on a largely forgotten train tunnel that connected the Port of Richmond with the railways. it collapsed with disastrous timing oct. 25, 1925, killing four and entombing one locomotive.

June Pair Kilpatrick, W’53, Wasps in the Bedroom, Butter in the Well. Kilpatrick recalls her childhood in hopewell, Va., and the ways her family survived and endured during the Great depression.

William Roberson, R’53, Spiritual Thoughts for the Secret Freethinker. “The certainty associated with all belief systems is the foe of personal expansion,” Roberson writes as he explores his journey from a strict Southern Baptist upbringing to a less dogmatic understanding of faith.

Frank Hanenkrat, R’61 and G’68, Herman Melville’s Genius.

Using the pen name Frank Troy, hanenkrat, a professor at Lynchburg college, explores melville’s understanding of everything from religion and philosophy to wisdom literature. hanenkrat describes melville’s works as “slyly disguised and damning exposés of the flawed assumptions and ideologies that prevailed in his day.”

Mark Souther, G’96, American Tourism. What makes Pedro and his South of the Border tourist trap an enduring, though eccentric, destination?

Souther asks questions like that about dozens of popular destinations from Williamsburg to Las Vegas, revealing the creative ideas and marketing behind some of America’s best-known tourist spots.

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Our M an in London

A lumni by the Numbers Where alumni live

Top 10 U.S. Cities (outside of Virginia) 1. New York City 2. Washington, D.C. 3. Baltimore 4. Atlanta 5. Charlotte, N.C. 6. Philadelphia 7. Chicago 8. Raleigh, N.C. 9. San Francisco 10. Dallas

Olympic troubleshooting Lost and running late at the 2012 Olympics? Then Bob Ravelli, B’78, was your man.

He volunteered as a gamesmaker during the games in London, managing loading and unloading zones for athletes, media, celebrities, and other VIPs. The role fit well with Ravelli’s background as an urban planner specializing in transportation planning. He also answered questions and gave directions to countless spectators at Horse Guards Parade, which hosted the beach volleyball competition.

A location near 10 Downing Street also assured a steady traffic of government ministers (plus one of the Downing Street cats), but his most memorable interaction came from two ordinary but frantic ladies who were flustered enough to overlook one minor, important detail. Ravelli saw that their tickets were for the indoor volleyball competition—a few miles away. Ever courteous, he helped them hail a cab and saw the slightly embarrassed duo off.

n n n n

14,463 2,500–2,000 1,999–1,000 999–500

Alumni by decade and gender (including the 4,058 Spiders married to Spiders)

n n n n

Men

2000s 2000s

Women

1990s 1990s

499–200 199–100 99–50 < 49

50,144 alumni

2010s

2010s (’10-’12) ('10-12')

Top 10 Countries (outside of the U.S.) 1. United Kingdom 2. Canada 3. China 4. France 5. Australia 6. Switzerland 7. Bahamas 8. Bulgaria 9. Germany 10. Brazil

Alumni by academic unit n n n n n

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1980s 1980s

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Richmond College* School of Arts and Sciences Westhampton College* Robins School of Business Jepson School of Leadership Studies Reynolds Graduate School of Business Law School

* Richmond College and Westhampton College granted academic degrees until 1992.

1970s 1970s

1960s 1960s

School of professional and continuing Studies

1950s 1950s

Undergraduate certificates and degrees n Graduate certificates and degrees n University College*

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1949 and 1949 and earlier earlier

00 1000 3000 4000 5000 1,000 2000 2,000 3,000 4,000 5,000

= 200 alumni =

* Includes a variety of certificates and degrees from both the undergraduate and graduate levels.

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Submissions Let us know how you are doing. Send information to classconnections@ richmond.edu, fax it to 804-287-1221 or mail it to: Class Connections Puryear Hall, 200 28 Westhampton Way University of Richmond, VA 23173 The magazine uses W, B, C, or R to designate the school of alumni through 1992. For graduates of 1993 and beyond, only the class year is used. We continue to use abbreviations for alumni with law, graduate, or honorary degrees regardless of their year of graduation.

Key B C

G

Robins School of Business School of Professional and Continuing Studies Graduate School of Arts and Sciences

GC Graduate School of Professional

and Continuing Studies GB Richard S. Reynolds Graduate

School of Business H L R W

Honorary Degree School of Law Richmond College Westhampton College

Class Connections Writer Mary Fehm Gravely, W’88 classconnections@richmond.edu

CLASS OF ’42

Sara Goode Arendall manages well in her assisted living residence. When we spoke last summer, she was in good spirits and enjoying a birthday lunch with her daughters.

A strong Virginia storm caused Ada Moss Harlow to be without power for eight days last summer. A tree from the neighbor’s yard fell onto her roof, resulting in considerable damage.

Hortense Winston Ruddick enjoys learning more about painting techniques and singing old hymns.

One of her granddaughters, a teacher, recently earned her Ph.D. After 33 years in Florida, Dagmar Jacobsen Crosby was busy with plans to sell her condo and move back to Richmond to be near her family. She is in good health, drives, and continues to paint and sew.

Ethne Flanagan Higginbotham and I are still computer novices, struggling with our problems and depending often on friends for assistance.

We extend our sympathy to the families of Virginia Anne Sauer, who passed away Aug. 25, and Marjorie Wilson Glick, who died Sept. 22, 2011. Our condolences also go to Winnifred Houser Gill on the death of her husband, Dan, this past June, and to Frances Calisch Rothenberg on the death of her husband, William A. Rothenberg, R’39 and H’03, in early July.

Please keep your news coming.

Westhampton Class Secretary Lillian Jung 35 Midland Avenue Central Valley, NY 10917 clj18@optimum.net

CLASS OF ’45

Liz Parker Cone continues to live in her lovely Richmond home south of the James River and enjoys growing flowers. She speaks highly of her grandson, who graduated from the University of Richmond in 2008 and is doing well in the retail business in San Francisco.

If attitude helps to keep the years going, Mary Campbell Paulson wins the gold award. Vision is a problem but she is a social bug, has audio books from her local and state libraries, and keeps active swimming in her pool and exercising in the gym. Her children are nearby, so she sees them frequently. She says she is very happy,

feels good, and has lots of friends.

What more can one ask for?

Alma Rosenbaum Hurwitz lives in Schenectady, N.Y., in the home that she and her husband built 57 years ago.

She has given up many artistic and athletic activities such as dancing, boating, and skiing, and says life is a bit dull but she remains independent. She does all of her own cooking, housekeeping, and some yard work, and she drives a 27-year-old car! It’s not surprising to hear of the academic successes of Alma’s children: two have doctorates, and one has a master’s degree. Seven grandchildren have achievements in higher education. They’ve all followed in Alma’s footsteps.

Spinal stenosis has slowed down the activities of Gladys Lowden Metz, but she is much better following surgery.

She is no longer driving, but her senior facility has transportation to stores and concerts in Philadelphia. Gladys’ granddaughter works as an educator in Liberia for the nonprofit organization World Learning. She and her fiancé planned to return to the U.S. in October to be married.

Let me hear from you.

Westhampton Class Secretary Ruth Latimer 7101 Bay Front Drive, Apt. 500 Annapolis, MD 21403 Latimer377@aol.com

CLASS OF ’47

Travel for our class is both fun and educational, and we keep at it!

Virginia Wagstaff spends several days each month and many holidays at Lake Gaston, Va. She also enjoys visiting Virginia Beach for a week in October with family.

Gin Ellett has long been an unofficial travel coordinator for the Cedarfield Retirement Community, planning excursions and day trips for interested residents. She planned an expedition last spring to Beaverdam, Va., where she grew up. They visited a local country store museum, the historic Beaverdam railroad depot, Trinity Episcopal Church, and a miniature goat farm.

Marion Collier Miller, W and G’66, may well be our class super traveler. Over the years she has crossed the Atlantic 22 times and spent 176 days at sea, all with Cunard Lines.

She achieved the “diamond level” as a Cunard passenger. In 2011, she and her sister Evelyn sailed to Europe and spent a week in Paris and another in

London. She says that may have been her last trip, but I wouldn’t bet on it.

2011 was a banner travel year for me. In May my entire family—a total of 20 children, grandchildren, greatgrandchildren, and spouses—took a five-day cruise to Bermuda. The pink sand and aquamarine water were gorgeous, but the best part was just being together. Then in October my daughter Bee and I toured Egypt and Jordan.

Everything was better than anticipated: pyramids, camels, cruising the Nile, the temples at Abu Simbel, even the lost city of Petra in Jordan. I just hope it all survives the turmoil that has followed.

Betty Gustafson keeps up a busy travel schedule, spending time at her Chesapeake Bay Cottage and several weeks a year in Boothbay Harbor, Maine. She loves Holland America Cruises. Her most recent trip was a 15-day trans-Atlantic crossing last spring. She and a longtime friend visited St. Malo and Cherbourg, France, and Brugge, Belgium, and spent an extended time in Amsterdam, taking in the beautiful tulips.

Tennis has been a lifelong love for Betty. She was interviewed at length and quoted in Richmond One of America’s Best Tennis Towns, a book written by Eric Perkins, Tom Hood, and John Packett that benefits the Richmond Tennis Association.

I would love to hear from other classmates. Please remember deadlines are way ahead of publication dates, so take pen in hand now!

Westhampton Class Secretary Marylou Massie Cumby 13007 Chipstead Road Chester, VA 23931 804-748-3674 mmcumby@yahoo.com [Due to an editing error, we omitted the Class of ’47 letter from the previous issue.

We regret the error and have added safeguards to avoid repeating it. —Ed.]

CLASS OF ’48

Reunion Reminder May 31–June 2, 2013 For more information, email reunion @richmond.edu or call 804-289-8030 or 800-480-4774, option 8.

CLASS OF ’50

Gatewood Holland Stoneman, Maryanne Bugg Lambert, Rosa Lou Soles Johnston, Gene Hart Joyner,

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Jean Tinsley Martin, Mary Howard Holloway, Margaret Alexander Anderson, Marjorie Parson Owen, her daughter Nancy Owen Grizzard W’81, and I met at Lewis Ginter Botanical Gardens for our annual summer get-together.

Mary Howard Holloway moved back to South Boston, Va., to her parents’ home in June 2011 and often sees Barbara Brann Johnston.

Mary lost her oldest son, Edward, in November 2011.

Marjorie Owen Parson enjoyed the annual Parson family reunion at which 90 family members gathered.

Frances Sutton Oliver and Raymond celebrated their 60th anniversary with 40 family members. Gene Hart Joyner, a bridesmaid, and other wedding party members attended.

Margaret Alexander Anderson went to Charleston, S.C., to visit her son and his wife and then traveled on to Florida.

Doris Lee Reeves Childress’ son Tripp came from London to help her move in to the Hermitage in Richmond.

Maryanne Bugg Lambert now has three great-grandchildren. The youngest was born in August.

My family visited last summer from Albuquerque, N.M., and Florida.

Grandchildren grow up so quickly, and grandmothers keep getting shorter!

Our annual scholarship to a Westhampton student is now $12,000. Please remember to write on all your donations “Scholarship WC Class of 1950.”

News of our “Nifty 50s” is so important to all of us. Please send any news about you and yours to Gatewood Holland Stoneman, who will be serving as our next acting class secretary as we search for a permanent Westhampton Class Secretary. She can be reached at 3151 Varina on the James, Henrico, VA 23231. If you would like to serve as our class secretary—for a year, two years, or any length of time—please contact the Office of Alumni and Career Services at 804-289-8026, or email them at alumniandcareerservices @richmond.edu.

Acting Class Secretary Janice Brandenburg Halloran

CLASS OF ’51

We express our sympathy to the family and friends of Jean Booth

Then and Now Long overcoats. Hats and scarves. An unsteady slide forward. In 1914, the chill of winter and scraping of ice skates heralded a rare opportunity for the men of Richmond and the women of Westhampton to gather together on the ice in their first months on a new campus.

As a host of new structures has risen along its shores, Westhampton Lake has become more a bridge than a divide. Gone are the days of ice-skating, though. Facilities staff told us the lake hasn’t frozen over since sometime in the early 1990s. During that freeze, campus police prevented access to the ice after trustees spotted students frolicking.

Since 1999, aerators installed in the lake have helped prevent full-scale freezes by keeping the water in constant circulation.

McKenney, who passed away Sept.

2, 2011. Her many accomplishments were listed in the “In Memoriam” section of the Spring 2012 issue of Richmond Alumni Magazine. Her husband, Robert McKenney, R ’56, adds that Jean taught history for 25 years, was DAR Regent twice, and sang in her church choir.

Our sympathy also goes to Helen Clark Hensley and her family for the loss of her husband, David Robert “Dick” Hensley Jr., R ’51, who died August 24. He excelled at and was admired by many as an educator, coach, and mentor. Helen’s daughter, Mary Helen Hensley, recently published The Land Beyond the River, the third book in her trilogy.

Charlotte Herrink Sayre enjoyed a wonderful visit with her twin sister, Virginia Herrink Coppock, in May. Paula Abernethy Kelton and John became great-grandparents to Kelton James Brelie, who was born Aug. 1 in Madison, Wis. Helen McCarthy Hopkins and her husband celebrated their 60th wedding anniversary in June with a big party attended by their four children, two brothers, and families, including 13 grandchildren and friends. They later vacationed in New York City and saw The Lion King and Memphis.

Jane Lawson Willis moved back to Richmond and enjoys playing bridge with five classmates who live at Westminster Canterbury.

In August, Virginia Herrink Coppock and Bob Coppock Jr., L’67, traveled to England and Scotland, where they visited relatives for two weeks.

Charlotte Houchins Decker and Hank Decker, R’50, are proud of their granddaughter, who graduated in May from UNC-Chapel Hill and has a job in Washington, D.C. Charlotte volunteers at Woman’s Hospital gift shop in Greensboro, N.C. She is active in church work, bridge, and her women’s club. She reported that Shirley Hall Murphy died June 15 in Richmond. Shirley had five children, 11 grandchildren, and five greatgrandchildren. She had been active at St. Bridget’s and at St. Joseph’s Home for more than 30 years. Our sympathy goes out to Shirley’s family.

Millie Wright Outten and Joseph celebrated their 60th wedding anniversary in August. They continue to enjoy vacationing in Hilton Head, S.C. Irene Groves Howland was

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excited about a big family reunion on Pawleys Island, S.C., in October.

It even included her great-grandson.

Irene volunteers at a senior center and takes Osher Project courses at Towson University in Lutherville, Md. Before her death several years ago, Edith “Sterling” Clark Atchison of Potomac, Md., worked as a mathematician for the U.S. Department of Navy in research and development.

Her husband, Charles, is a physicist.

Eleanor Easley Barnes is living comfortably in a retirement home in Winston Salem, N.C. She manages a retirement community gift shop.

Betty Tredway Blake is proud of her two daughters and three grandchildren. One daughter has a Ph.D. in pharmacy and the other is a teacher.

She has been a widow for 25 years, yet still has her sense of humor and strong faith.

Elizabeth McRae Dudley enjoyed a vacation at The Homestead with her son and granddaughter and two fun weeks at her condo in Florida, where her niece and niece’s husband visited.

Nance Anderson Hall has eight children, 15 grandchildren, and one great-grandchild, half of whom live near her in Roanoke, Va. Helen “Betty” Luke was the second woman in Baltimore to be a stockbroker but retired as a clinical social worker. She established a counseling center at St. Ann’s Home in Mathuen, Mass.

Suzanne Gibson Madden retired from running a gourmet food shop in Frederick, Md., after 19 years. She has been a widow for 30 years and has four children and three grandchildren.

One grandchild earned a law degree from George Washington University and another planned to be heading to Afghanistan.

Shirley Dale Robertson lived at Lakewood Manor for six years and served on the Baptist Board for 35 years, where she knew Faye Plunkett, who died in August. Faye was the youngest sister of our deceased classmate Anne Plunkett Rosser, W and H’90, and Jeanne Plunkett Beckett, W’53.

Ernestine Allport Sasser has four children, five grandchildren, and one great-grandson. She has enjoyed six trips to England and Scotland and is entering her oil paintings in the Virginia Regional Art Show in Montpelier, Va. Joyce Gladding Thomas adopted six children and has seven

grandchildren. She taught physical education, biology, and English in Bowling Green, Va., and tennis at Rappahannock College in Warsaw, Va. Flora Jeanne Zbar earned a master’s degree in English from Florida State and has taught English at the University of South Florida for 47 years. She received two state awards for her teaching and, though retired, continues to teach the popular course “Literature and the Occult.”

Eleanor Wright Woodward and Manning Woodward, R’50, are enjoying their lives in Newport News, Va., at the Chesapeake Retirement Home, an assisted living facility with many amenities. They have five children between them.

In August Marilyn Montague Harper Reames and Joel had a fun vacation in Maine with relatives tracing their family history. Back home in Littleton, N.C., Marilyn stays busy with many Lake Gaston activities including ladies’ club, computer club, and church. Barbara Rose Burton, W’52, is in a nursing home there.

Frances Arrighi Tonacci sent news from the bridge group: Bobbie Lee Brown Yagel and Myron Yagel, R’52 and G’55, were surprised by their three children on their 60th wedding anniversary with a lovely reception for 40 relatives and friends and a stay at a bed-and-breakfast in Warm Springs, Va. In August, they were thrilled to become great-grandparents when Devin Yagel Gouvea and Marcos had a daughter.

Norma Streever Craig and Norm drove to Niagara on the Lake, Ontario, for a few days and took a wine-tasting tour.

I enjoyed more than two weeks at a resort in Freeport, Bahamas, in May. I hope you will keep the news coming!

Westhampton Class Secretary Barbara McGehee Cooke 8808 Nottingham Parkway Louisville, KY 40222 cookebarbara@att.net

CLASS OF ’52

Our class is indebted to Harriett Singleton Stubbs for the excellent job she has done for more than 10 years as class secretary. It has been difficult to find a replacement for her, but we have found four. Addie Eicks Comegys, Mary Ann Coates Edel, and Harriet Willingham Johnson will contact class members for news, and I will serve as coordinator. We hope you will

respond when you are asked for news for upcoming alumni magazines.

Sarah Barlow Wright, her daughter, and two grandchildren, ages 12 and 14, visited Pennsylvania Amish country last June. Sarah was impressed by the farmers working expansive, fertile fields and carrying to market their superb produce in horse-drawn wagons. The children were excited to ride in an Amish buggy.

Harriett Stubbs’ most recent paper, “The development of a constructivist sociocultural model of professional development from 1970 to 2011,” was included in the June 2011 Brazilian journal Educar em Revista. She is working on two papers she hopes to submit for publication in the near future.

In August, Barbara Cawthorne Clarke traveled from her home in Pennsylvania to North Carolina, where she visited with Anne Gibson Hill and Harriett Stubbs at Anne’s Chapel Hill home for an afternoon of tea and talk. Barbara also went to Durham to see her daughter, who had just returned from Brazil.

Helen Want Miller and Stanley celebrated their 60th anniversary with flowers, cake, and good friends in their home in Fairfax, Va. Janet Storm Pengelley spent a month in a hospital and recovery center. She is home and happy to have her computer in working order. She is glad to read news of our class in the alumni magazine, even though it takes a little longer for the magazine to arrive at her home in Australia.

Harriet Willingham Johnson and Cork enjoy time each summer spent at their lake cottage in western Minnesota. A professional photographer came to the cottage last summer to photograph it for a book that will be published in fall 2013.

Sue Easley Candler moved temporarily into a rehab apartment in August to practice her living skills before returning to her house in Lafayette, La. If you would like her address or phone number, please contact me, and I will gladly give it to you.

On a three-day vacation at Shenandoah National Park, Sarah Barlow Wright and I hiked more than a mile on the Appalachian Trail with a park ranger group. The trail was steep in sections and quite rocky. For two women in their 80s, we thought this was quite an accomplishment!

As many of you know, we lost Eleanor Persons Hays in April. There was a lovely tribute to her in her church bulletin listing her numerous accomplishments. She was the first female to be president of the Baptist Student Union at University of Richmond. As she had requested, her husband, Bob Hays, R’49, brought her ashes from Texas to King George County, Va., to be buried beside her parents.

Sarah Barlow Wright learned that from 1982 to 2012, 21 women have been recipients of our class scholarship. The names of the recipients were sent to all of our class members.

Instructions also were sent on exactly how to make out checks so that they will benefit this fund. Grace Leonard, ’12, our scholarship recipient for the last three years, graduated cum laude in May. Westhampton Class Secretaries Kathleene Cooke O’Bier 703 Coan Haven Road Lottsburg, VA 22511 kathleene.aaron@mailstation.com Addie Eicks Comegys Mary Ann Coates Edel Harriet Willingham Johnson [Due to an editing error, we mislabeled the Class of ’52 letter in the previous issue. We regret the error and have added safeguards to avoid repeating it. —Ed.]

CLASS OF ’53

Reunion Reminder May 31–June 2, 2013 For more information, email reunion @richmond.edu or call 804-289-8030 or 800-480-4774, option 8.

CLASS OF ’54

Jo Sue Leonard Simpson wrote from Easton, Md., that she had lunch in July with the “Eastern Shore girls.”

She saw Barbara Bull Tull and Susanne Kegan Nuttle, along with Susanne’s sister, Martha. They reminisced and caught up with current news, and all were happy.

Nancy Graham Harrell and I have enjoyed getting to know Jo Sue’s sister, Elaine Leonard Davis, W’49. She joins us once a month for dinner with other Westhampton graduates at Cedarfield. Elaine lives at another facility.

It was sad news to hear that Jane Gill Tombes died Aug. 7. She had

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complications from open-heart surgery. Jane and her husband, Averett Tombes, R, were living at Brandermill Woods. After a long teaching career, Jane was still teaching a course for the Osher Lifelong Learning Institute at the University.

Please send me any news you have about yourself and classmates.

Westhampton Class Secretary Nancy Baumgardner Werner 10027 Cedarfield Court Richmond, VA 23233-1935 nanwriter1@aol.com

CLASS OF ’55

Mariah Chisholm Hasker and Bill had a family reunion in Richmond in June. Many family members from all over the country attended, including their son from Houston and his family; their son from California and his fiancée; and their daughter and three granddaughters from Connecticut.

Peggy Hall Flippen and her husband enjoyed a trip to Allentown, Pa., to visit with her cousins and high school friends in September. They also flew to Dallas to spend a few days with their daughter and her husband.

Gail Tench Miller spent a month in the mountains near Murphy, N.C., with her sister, Sharon. They had a great time despite the hot and humid weather. Her granddaughters and two of her great-granddaughters spent a few days with her before school started. She had cataract surgery on her left eye and can see so much better.

Last summer Grace Phillips Webb had three grandchildren and their mother visit from the state of Washington for two weeks. They spent three days in Washington, D.C., going and coming back on their first train rides. Grace said it was fun. She thinks she saw more of Richmond than she has seen in many years.

Grace and her daughter-in-law went to Virginia Beach for three days because the military hotel at Fort Story was closing in September, and it was always one of Newt’s and her favorites.

Her son from Richmond also wanted to go, so she got reservations for his family of five children and herself. It was such a beautiful and restful place, and she hated to see it go.

Grace’s son Tucker did a PowerPoint presentation with Jody Weaver Yuhase and Bill Yuhase for Thomas Jefferson High School. Jody invited her to come and see it and

have lunch there. They had put two years of work into organizing the program, and she says it was wonderful.

Myra Embrey Wormald took a trip to the Dalmatian Coast of Croatia and to Italy, and enjoyed it very much.

At the end of July they had their annual family reunion on the Outer Banks of North Carolina. However, they missed their youngest child, Ken, and his family because they were on a three-week tour of the West.

Bobbie Reynolds Wyker, W and G’76, stays in touch with Polly Bundick Dize by phone. Five of her grandchildren are in college this year, and the other two are high-school seniors. She enjoys them all living close by on the Eastern Shore.

Virginia “Sunshine” Murden and Bobbie write to each other. Sunshine does beautiful flower arrangements for friends and her church. She continues to write poems.

Bobbie and Ann King Lucas keep up by email. Ann is very happy with her move back home to Radford, Va. Bobbie’s Westhampton “RivUR” group is active. Their youngest member is from the Class of 1980, and they come together in true Spider spirit for their gatherings. They even sing their Westhampton blessing before luncheon meetings.

Grace Phillips Webb and Joy Winstead have purchased season tickets to UR basketball games for 2012– 13. Joy is taking three classes through Osher at UR: opera, play reading, and German history during World War II. The history class is being taught by someone who lived in Germany during the war and reconstruction years.

Joy and Alice McCarty Haggerty are serving on the board of UR’s Friends of Boatwright Memorial Library.

Clifford “Gene” White, L’62, and I took a trip to the Colorado mountains with pharmacy school friends in late May and early June. We were fortunate to have left before the fires started. The mountains are beautiful, but not like those in the east.

Westhampton Class Secretary Nancy Johnson White 8228 S. Mayfield Lane Mechanicsville, VA 23111 white@vcu.org

CLASS OF ’56

The Richmond area “Lunch Bunch” met in June for good food and good

fun at Capital Ale House. Janet Knobel Jones, Rose Dranchak Martin, Anne Jennings Vaughan, Joyce Still Gibson, W and G’61, Doris Huffman Highfill, Dottie Stiff Price, Helen Melton Lukhard, Pat McElroy Smith, and Julia Hubbard Nixon attended. I (Phyllis G. Wacker, W and G’65) was unable to attend because I was visiting colleagues and friends in Jyväskylä, Finland. I met nine of my friends from Richmond for two days in Helsinki, Finland, and spent a day in Tallinn, Estonia.

Helen Siner Wood traveled to Provence, France, and Brussels, Belgium, last summer with her daughter Elizabeth Wood Woodworth, ’93, and her daughter’s family. Having lived there for so many years, it’s always nice to get back.

Joyce Still Gibson, W and G’61, and Harold Gibson, R’56, had a nice trip to France early in the summer. They spent four days in Paris and then took a riverboat trip on the Saône and Rhone, ending in Nice, France, and Monaco. They also enjoyed several weeks with friends and family in Sunset Beach.

Jan Hogge Atkins has moved to Lakewood Manor.

Mary Moore Mullin Mowery had a great trip this spring to Tucson, Ariz., with her son for the annual gem show, and then it was on to Sedona, Ariz., to visit with old friends. She also traveled to Seattle for her grandson’s high school graduation. She still lives in Las Vegas.

Lisa Simmonds Smart traveled to Washington, D.C., with her granddaughter and saw all the sights, museums, monuments, and notable buildings both in daylight and at night.

They visited Mount Vernon and its stables, Georgetown, and Georgetown University. They got great photos of the Fourth of July fireworks.

Edna Wagstaff Warncke, W and G’65, took a 20-day trip to South Africa. The highlight of her amazing trip was seeing the animals on a safari.

She was almost close enough to touch herds of elephants, cape buffalo, impalas, zebras, lions, leopards, rhinos, wart hogs, ostrich, and giraffe, among other animals. The Indian Ocean and Cape of Good Hope were beautiful.

Susan Quinn Wagner spent two weeks during the summer in the Pacific Northwest visiting Seattle and Washington’s San Juan Islands. They

also visited Vancouver and Victoria in British Columbia, where it was lovely and cool.

Thelma Flynn Helm planned to move back to Roanoke, Va. She said it was hard to believe that she would be returning to the place where she, Liza, Leta Mae, and Alice began teaching after graduation.

I’m sorry to close on a sad note, but Fay White Chilton’s husband, the Rev. Charles A. Chilton, R’57, passed away July 25. Fay and Charlie served seven years as missionaries in the Philippine Islands. We send our heartfelt condolences.

Thanks to all of you who shared your news with us. Pat will be writing next, so keep those notes coming.

Westhampton Class Secretaries Pat McElroy Smith 9105 Burkhart Drive Richmond, VA 23229 804-754-0194 patsmith34@comcast.net Phyllis Gee Wacker, W and G’65 252 Riverview Drive Surry, VA 23883 mimiwacker@aol.com

CLASS OF ’57

Thank you to those who sent in news for this, my inaugural letter. I am following the practice of Margaret Foster and previous secretaries in using email to gather news. Please email me at my address below if you did not receive my request for news, and I will add you to my email list.

Beverley Ambler Richardson’s husband, Charlie, died Feb. 25, 2012.

In 2011 they moved to Charlie’s home state of Tennessee, where their only son and grandchildren live. Beverley is so thankful that they were there with their son when Charlie suffered his quick decline.

Barbara Goodman Hardinge’s new hip and repaired foot are doing fine, and she’s on the move again.

Her granddaughter, Megan, is living in Farmville, Va., and attends Longwood University. Barbara enjoys frequent visits from Megan and her friends, in addition to visits from other members of her large family.

She traveled to Nags Head, Kill Devil Hills, and Manteo, N.C., last year to visit other grandchildren and a greatgranddaughter.

Kitty Clark Kersey published the book 101 Principles for Positive Guidance with Young Children, which

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is the culmination of her 43-year teaching career at Old Dominion University. The 101 principles help adults become conscious of their own practices and beliefs about guiding children by showing how their words, actions, and responses influence the responses of children and others. To top that, she is still teaching at ODU! After our reunion Katharine Kakie Parr Jenkins went back to her caretaker routine with her granddaughter, Aly. They went on a family trip to the beach, Little Gym camp, horseback riding camp, summer school, therapies, and the pool. She is volunteering in Aly’s elementary school again. Katharine’s son, Scott Jenkins, B’82, completed the first half of his Appalachian Trail hike in mid-August and, last I heard from Kakie, he was headed south to Georgia.

Aimee Lee Raveling Cheek stays busy writing and reading; taking morning walks with her husband, Bill Cheek, G’57; helping put out a newsletter for their community organization; trying to keep meals interesting in preparation and consummation; and admiring their 15-year-old granddaughter and nearly 9-year-old grandson from near and afar. She had a long stay in Albuquerque, N.M., in September. She appreciated their good fortune in a cool summer on the other coast, even as they lamented the terrible hot, dry days suffered by so much of our nation.

Jennie Sue Johnson Murdock is doing fine and getting about, but is not quite as active. She and her husband have plans to locate to an independent cottage at their nearby retirement community.

Jackie Randlette Tucker has followed up on the river cruise she and her husband, Walter Tucker, B’53, took last June on the Columbia and Snake rivers in Oregon and Washington.

They recently checked out a Ken Burns DVD from the library about Lewis and Clark. It was so meaningful to them after making that wonderful cruise and seeing that same territory.

Last summer Margaret Foster grew a bumper crop of tomatoes that she shared with friends and neighbors.

The most exciting part of her summer was a fundraising campaign for a nonprofit organization to which she belongs that aims to purchase the former laboratory building of Nikola Tesla and create a Tesla Science Center and Museum. They used an online

fundraising campaign and were astonished at how quickly the campaign took off. Almost $500,000 was raised in the first 24 hours! You can read about the project at http://www. teslasciencecenter.org/.

I sold my house in McLean, Va., and am getting settled in my new apartment at Lakewood Manor in a building with just 10 apartments. I have been welcomed into a wonderful group of women in the building, including Jackie Kilby Brooks, W’55.

The group dines together most nights in our lovely dining room and enjoys a number of other activities together.

Westhampton Class Secretary Ruth Tipton Powers 1950 Lauderdale Drive, Apt. 304 Henrico, VA 23238 ruth.powers@verizon.net

CLASS OF ’58

Reunion Reminder May 31–June 2, 2013 For more information, email reunion @richmond.edu or call 804-289-8030 or 800-480-4774, option 8.

Libbie Jarrett Burger’s husband, Wilbur, died Jan. 8, 2012, after a long battle with cancer. He was a respected oncology physician in Lynchburg, Va. Dottie Goodman Lewis and her husband, David, lost their son, David Andrew Lewis, R’84, to brain cancer Feb. 14, 2012.

CLASS OF ’59

Our sympathy goes to Eileen McCutcheon Hollans, who lost her husband, Harold, in August 2011.

They were married 44 years. Her children live in Delaware and Tennessee.

It’s a long way from Macon, Ga., where she lives, but Eileen plans to move to Nashville, Tenn., to be near her son and his family as soon as she sells her house. She feels she has been blessed in many ways and has so much for which to be thankful.

She is very glad that she and Harold attended our 50th reunion.

Sylvia “Sibby” Haddock Young and Paige Young, R’59, spent a wonderful week in Duck, N.C., with their entire family last summer. Their most relaxing time is still on the Potomac River … sitting on the pier or out in the boat.

Mary Ann Williams Haske had a great get-together on Gwynn’s Island,

Va., complete with kayaking, fishing, swimming, and eating crabs and oysters. She was able to be with all of her children and grandchildren at some point during the summer. She and I enjoy getting together with high school friends for an occasional lunch.

Bev Brown Peace is having increasing difficulty being independent because of balance problems. She still drives a bit and uses a walker, but she doesn’t venture far. She is grateful for being in a lovely community and part of a small, caring church that has an active senior group that she and Phil started eight years ago.

Barbara Dulin Polis and Charlie Polis, R’58, enjoyed a family cruise to Alaska via Seattle. Twelve of them in four families went, including the kids, ages 16, 13, 11, 7, and 1. (One of her sons-in-law broke his leg a week before the trip and could not come with them.) They sailed the inner passage of Alaska—Juneau, Ketchikan, Skagway—and Victoria, British Columbia. For Mother’s Day and Charlie’s birthday, their children

ing with arrangements for art classes for the program she and her husband, Gene Ryder, R’59, helped start at First Baptist, and a new program where they live at Salemtowne Retirement Community. She writes for the campus newsletter; facilitates a discussion group at Shepherd’s Center (a community program for seniors); works with a diversity committee that involves their church and a sister, primarily African-American, church; and spends time with their son Greg and 17-year-old grand twins. She says she is cooking less, and they eat out more than seems right.

Susan Payne Moundalexis’ granddaughter, Megan, married Sept.

15 in Annapolis, Md. Megan participated in the Lake Placid Ironman competition in July. Susan and her husband, John, attended and were totally amazed at her stamina. They now call her Iron Megan.

Jacquelin Connell Atkinson and Charles still enjoy living in the triangle region of North Carolina and live in a retirement community just 10 minutes from Duke. They have a granddaugh-

“We even popped a small firecracker when Maria and the captain kissed for the first time.”

—Mary Mac Thomas Moran, W’59, on seeing The Sound of Music treated them to Mendenhall Glacier Park, a salmon hatchery, and then on to a salmon bake in Juneau.

The highlight of Jeanie Rice Hodder’s summer was a fantastic trip to Costa Rica, where she spent two weeks with her daughter Laura and her family. From capuchin monkeys to boa constrictors, and scarlet macaws to leaf cutter ants, they saw it all. She even brushed up on her Spanish!

Nancy Hopkins Phillips and Bill Phillips, R’58, traveled to Doizieux, France, where they attended a ceremony Sept. 15, at the site of the air crash where Bill’s brother died in 1944 when being taken from the battlefield for treatment of war wounds. They tacked on a Danube River cruise from Budapest, Hungary, to Vienna before heading home.

Ann Copeland Denton Ryder, W’58 and G’66, is staying busy work-

ter who is a junior at Duke and a grandson who is a senior at UNCChapel Hill. Two other grandchildren are at Appalachian State and Davidson College. The youngest of their eight grandchildren is 11 years old.

Jackie had a heart scare last winter with a diagnosis of a bad case of atrial fibrillation. She was diagnosed when she was at Duke University Hospital being screened to take part in an exercise/fitness study for seniors. The study was going to pay her a little something and give her a personal fitness instructor for four months. She flunked her treadmill test, but what a great place to be when that happened!

She had an ablation procedure in February and has recovered. She writes that “God is good!” In March, Jackie’s mother passed away, a month before her 96th birthday.

Last fall Jackie and Charles were

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on a cruise that put them in Egypt between the riots in Cairo, in Turkey between the earthquakes, in Israel while they were firing rockets from the Gaza Strip into Ashdod, Israel, and in Greece when they weren’t picking up the trash. She says despite it all, it was certainly better than the Costa Concordia! This fall, they cruised closer to home in New England and Canada.

Patricia Nettles Harrington has six wonderful grandchildren. Her granddaughter Shannon is an art scholar in her junior year at Richmond.

Patricia has visited her twice, having much fun walking around campus with her family. Shannon studied in Rome this past fall.

Every two years, the Richmond Symphony Orchestra League chooses a grand Richmond residence and lets Richmond’s best designers loose inside. The results are always spectacular. This fall, Pinifer Park, built in 1910 and located at 3312 Robious Crossing Drive, was transformed and on display. Elizabeth Ramos Dunkum was a day captain for the Designer House Sept. 11. Family and 20 friends, including classmates Bev Eubank Evans, Ruth Adkins Hill, W and G’85, Mary Trew Biddlecomb Lindquist, and I helped her staff the house that day. We worked as hostesses and hosts in the design rooms of the home, doing such things as pointing out unique features of the interior decorator’s space, engaging visitors, and monitoring rooms for security.

Barbara Kriz Anderson spent her summer in Connecticut at the lake house. She also spent a day with Dzintra Klaupiks Infante and her husband, Tony, swimming, boating, and catching up on all the news. Barbara enjoyed visiting her grandchildren early in June at Camp Seagull and Seafarer in Arapahoe, N.C. Her grandchildren are becoming very good sailors!

As a belated birthday present, my daughter Carol took me to Wolf Trap to see the The Sound of Music in August. Those in attendance sang along with the songs, booed at the Nazis, and cheered whenever Maria appeared on the screen. We even popped a small firecracker when Maria and the captain kissed for the first time. What a great evening! I spent my usual week in Nags Head, N.C., renewing friendships that formed years ago. I continue to enjoy ballroom dancing, singing in the church choir, playing bridge, attending women’s clubs and DAR meetings, and

performing with the Now and Then Dance Ensemble, to name some of the activities that keep me busy and out of trouble. It’s always nice to see other ’59ers Bev Eubank Evans, Ruth Adkins Hill, Bonnie Lewis Haynie, Mabel Shupe Cosby, and Mary Trew Biddlecomb Lindquist at Dunlora Woman’s Club meetings.

Please send me your news by snail mail or email at any time during the year.

Westhampton Class Secretary Mary Mac Thomas Moran 8721 Lakefront Drive Richmond, VA 23294 maryteach@verizon.net The Rev. James Imel, R, retired last summer from teaching history at Bakersfield College in Bakersfield, Calif. He is upgrading his first two books into one Technical Manual for Christians. He is also preparing the heart of his doctoral dissertation from 2009 to help churches retain new members.

CLASS OF ’60

The Class of 1960 extends our deepest sympathy to Cynthia Katz Hoffman whose husband, Ira S. Hoffman, died June 8. Ira practiced dentistry in Stamford, Conn., for 47 years.

Cynthia has a son, two daughters, and five grandchildren.

We also extend our sympathy to Loretta Hudgins Johnson, who lost her father in 2011 and her mother in June. Loretta says she took “girl” trips last year to Destin, Fla.; Emerald Isle, N.C.; Williamsburg, Va.; and Charleston, S.C. She and Doug went on a grand trip to Hawaii in January.

She also spent a week in Ann Arbor, Mich., with her son and his family.

Loretta stays busy with Bunco groups, a bridge group, dinner groups, and neighborhood get-togethers. She sent news of Paulita Patterson, who was with us our freshman year and was my roommate.

Paulita lives in Raleigh, N.C., and has a mountain home in Virginia.

The annual Boatwright Dinner took place during Reunion Weekend in June, and our “little sister class,” the Class of 1962, was inducted into the Boatwright Society. It was great fun to see the wonderful women these girls have become, and we enjoyed renewing friendships from the l960s. Evalane Green Slaughter and her husband, Bill Slaughter, R’59 and G’70, Judy

Cyrus Johnson, Laurel Burkett Lonnes and her husband, Jerry, and I were the Westhampton Class of 1960 representatives. Laurel will be serving as vice president for the coming year.

In July, those of us who were in town had a great time catching up with Becky Grissom VanAusdall when she and her husband were in town for a short visit. Millie Bagley Bracey, Jeanette McWilliams Welsh, Phyllis Jenkins Polhemus, Judy Cyrus Johnson, Evalane Green Slaughter, Nancy Rae Taylor Owen, and I met Becky for lunch. It was great fun, as we’re all good at talking and listening at the same time. Becky says she stays busy with her grandson, Tommy, who is in fifth grade. Her husband is still working and recovering from knee surgery. Becky has become involved in PEO after being introduced to the organization by Linda Morgan Lemmon. She attended the state convention in Tampa last May. Elizabeth Thompson Zimmerman was on her way home from Spain with her granddaughter and couldn’t make the lunch. Laurel Burkett Lonnes also could not make it because she and her husband were traveling to Spain and Portugal with a granddaughter.

Those are lucky young girls to have such giving grandparents! Nancy Jenkins Marrow was in Florida and was unable to meet with us. Joan Batten Wood, W and G’70, a consultant in the healthcare field, was working and could not make the lunch.

Betsy Gathings Snook and David celebrated their 50th wedding anniversary in August. She enjoyed showing wedding pictures to her grandchildren and never dreamed that her family would number 14.

Eleanor “Dodie” Tyrrell took a cruise on the Mediterranean last year. In Istanbul on the first morning of the trip, her traveling companion fell and ended up with a broken leg. Dodie is still employed as the program director of California’s Alzheimer’s Disease Program and says she daydreams about what retirement might feel like. She had dinner with Gloria Greenfield Harris. Gloria coauthored the book Women Trailblazers of California: Pioneers to the Present.

My husband, Wayne Key Jr., R’60, and I had a great trip through the Florida Keys last February. The weather was absolutely beautiful, and it was fun to see the southernmost point of this great country. Although

we had a warm winter and hadn’t suffered from the cold at all, it was still good to see the lush green and beautiful flora in coastal Florida.

Thanks to all of you who responded to my requests for news. Please keep in touch. We do want to keep up with everyone.

Westhampton Class Secretary Em St.Clair Key 5 Bisley Court Richmond, VA 23238 foxkey@aol.com

CLASS OF ’61

Jessica Scarborough Burmester and Raymond took a wonderful trip to Morocco, visiting imperial cities, crossing the Atlas Mountains, and riding camels in the Sahara. More recently, they went to the Yucatan Peninsula and learned much about the ancient and not-so-ancient history of the area.

They continue their advocacy work on behalf of people with disabilities.

Polly Thompson Marshall and Bob Marshall, B’61, took a monthlong road trip through Mississippi, Tennessee, and New Orleans. Their oldest grandchildren are twins and graduated from college in May. The following month Polly and Bob enjoyed their 55th high school reunion in Richmond.

Gwynn Barefoot Litchfield, W and G’76, and Dave sailed on the Royal Clipper, which has five masts and 42 sails. In July they attended the Wintergreen Performing Arts Summer Music Festival. There is such a variety of music at the festival that last year there were 262 events in 31 days!

Martha Hinkle Fleer and Jack joined them for a weekend of music.

We send our deepest sympathy to Barbara Spiers Causey, whose son Andy died.

We also send our love to Mary Catherine Sellers Dunn, W and G’97, whose husband, Jim, died.

Virginia Needham Whitfield foresees a trip to Sacramento, Calif., in the near future to visit her great-granddaughter, Baylie Ann Schumann, who arrived in July.

Joyce Smith Allison and Ed Allison Jr., B’61, flew to Paris and took a riverboat cruise to Normandy and back to Paris. They attended the Boatwright Dinner in June and enjoyed visiting with members of the Class of ’62.

Jennie Stokes Howe, Bob, and son Glenn planned a trip to

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Newfoundland to fish and to meet some “newly found” cousins.

Ann Jones Stribling and Bill vacationed in Southern Shores, N.C., with the whole family for the 16th year in a row. She and Bill take trips with Jessica Scarborough Burmester and Ray. Bill and Ray “engineer” while Ann and Jess do the gift shops! Between trips, Ann makes jelly and pickles and stays busy with church work.

Mary Levering Evans joined her siblings and sister-in-law for a trek to Maine’s coast. She had been praying for rain in Ohio last summer and fall.

Roberta Arnold Gagliano and Frank Gagliano, R’60, are thrilled that one of the runners from Frank’s New Jersey/New York track club competed in the London Olympics.

Roberta has been suffering with CIDP, a neuropathy illness, but is improving with treatments.

Betty Wade Blanton Jones and Jerry Jones, L’65, have grandchildren from coast to coast. Last summer they all met and celebrated in Williamsburg, Va. Cindi Deatelhauser Nash and Reggie won the Children’s Choice Award for their 1904 Rambler at an antique auto event in Kentucky. The proceeds from the show went to the local Children’s Hospital. Cindi and Reggie hold an old-fashioned ice cream social in their backyard for car clubs. At least 100 people and many cars participate. They have visited family in Atlanta and planned to see Virginia Needham Whitfield when they went to Emerald Isle, N.C. Jean Stonestreet Lloyd, Ruth Carver Moss, Dona Spencer Link, and Steven Pugh, B’61 and GB’70, attended the “Mega Old JM Reunion 1901–1960” weekend this summer.

They went from elementary through high school together but reported that this reunion was not as elegant as ours was last year!

Thank you to all of you who sent news. Please update your email addresses; it makes communication so much faster.

Westhampton Class Secretary Daphne Shepard Mason 201 First Avenue Farmville, VA 23901 masons@moonstar.com

CLASS OF ’62

Our 50th reunion last June was a special celebration, and all who attended

seemed to enjoy seeing classmates and renewing friendships after so many years.

After the reunion, Lucy Hardy Johnson sent a program from the reunion weekend worship service at the chapel, which contained an “In Memoriam” listing of deceased alumni. From the Westhampton Class of ’62 are Melinda Holderby Haid, Anyce Dameron McCracken, Ann Caroline Peavy Pash, Cherry Blanton Peterson, Jane Crouch Rieder, Marilyn Hansen Wakeman, and Cornelia Douglas Williamson.

We regret the passing of these classmates and hold our memories of them in our heads and hearts.

The 50th reunion brought a classmate from afar—Judith Trunzo, who has retired to a small town near Avignon, France. Judith enjoyed

medieval Mont-Saint-Michel Abbey and Cathedral, and her two new knees went up all 300 steps to the top, where the view is spectacular! In London, they enjoyed probably their best Olympics yet (number eight for Barbara and number nine for Jim).

The Brits did a fabulous job of handling the crowds, and Barbara and Jim even managed to dodge raindrops.

When they weren’t attending events, they enjoyed two plays, some sightseeing in London, and Stonehenge.

A small group of classmates (generally known as “the Porch Bunch”) met in August at Lewis Ginter Botanical Gardens in Richmond for their annual lunch. The group included Julie Perkinson Crews, Kitty Borum Fitzhugh, Libby Wampler Jarrett, Robin Cramme Perks, Jane Thompson Kemper, Diane Light

“Almonds were more than plentiful this year; I have picked literally bushels, not to speak of the generosity of my fig tree.”

—Judith Trunzo, W’62, writing from her quiet corner of France reuniting with friends and family during the reunion and her stay in Virginia. Her classmates were especially glad to have her back with us.

Once back home Judith wrote, “All is quiet in my corner of France, which is focused on the grape harvest. The various white grapes were gathered early, given the long summer like weather.

We suddenly had three days of downpour at the end of August, but the heavy rain apparently will not hurt the reds. Almonds were more than plentiful this year; I have picked literally bushels, not to speak of the generosity of my fig tree. My neighbors fear me coming bearing gifts to be eaten or made into jams right away!”

Barbara Harrell Holdren and Jim went to France and then on to the London Olympics last summer. They spent three days in Paris before traveling to Normandy. They found the American cemetery, the Normandy beaches, and the Normandy Invasion Museum particularly memorable.

Barbara had always wanted to see the

Riffer, Judith Trunzo (in absentia), and me. This is always an enjoyable occasion with time to catch up on news of family, travels, activities, and books.

Libby Wampler Jarrett loved seeing everyone at the reunion. She and Harry marked their 50th wedding anniversary last year. Their celebration began in February with a three-day Disney Dream Cruise with children and grandchildren and continued in other small ways during the year, celebrating and being thankful for those 50 years and all the joy they have brought.

Libby’s first great-grandchild, Caiden Charles Whitmore, was born Sept. 11.

He is the seventh generation to be living in the Wampler family homeplace.

She looks “at this birth on this day as a testament to the fact that no matter what happens, life does go on.”

Barbara Davies Brewer and Richard E. Brewer, R’61, celebrated their 50th anniversary in August with a wonderful land and sea tour of Alaska. The two weeks were filled with beautiful scenery and wildlife,

including a fantastic helicopter ride to a glacier where they walked on the surface. They met Iditarod champions and even held puppies that might become team leaders. (Their grandchildren liked the photos of them with the puppies as much as anything else!)

They heartily recommend this trip to anyone who has not been to Alaska.

Tuckie Smart Paxton and Jim Paxton, B’63, also celebrated their 50th anniversary. Their daughters and their families joined them for a six-night cruise from Baltimore to Bermuda, which was a grand adventure for all nine of them!

Dick and I went to Charleston, S.C., and Savannah, Ga., in the spring and made several stops along the way.

The weather was beautiful, the cities were interesting, and we enjoyed delightful visits with friends we rarely see. In June, we joined a Road Scholar tour to the Scottish Highlands, staying at a former Victorian hunting lodge-turned-environmental field center. Our daily field trips introduced us to much Scottish culture, history, ecology, wildlife, and other elements of the environment. It was both a vacation and a learning experience!

Email makes communication easy these days, so please remember to drop me a line when you have news you’d like to share.

Westhampton Class Secretary Judy Acree Hansen 109 Kinloch Drive Fredericksburg, VA 22401 judyhansen@yahoo.com B. Shelton Rice Jr., R, lives in Fort Mill, S.C., near his three children and 11 grandchildren. In 1999, he retired as regional vice president of group medical claims from Travelers Insurance in Hartford, Conn., and in 2004 he retired as vice president of medical claims from Kanawha Insurance Company in Lancaster, S.C.

CLASS OF ’63

Reunion Reminder May 31–June 2, 2013 For more information, email reunion @richmond.edu or call 804-289-8030 or 800-480-4774, option 8.

Please save the date! Believe it or not, our 50th reunion weekend is coming up! It will be held May 31–June 2, 2013. There are so many memories to reminisce about and so much news to

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catch up on. It will be an event not to be missed. For those of you who are able, please plan to attend.

Westhampton Class Secretary Ann Cosby Davis 4215 Kingcrest Parkway Richmond, VA 23221 Michael Foreman, R’63, is one of three Spiders among 17 people profiled in a compilation of Winchester, Va., leaders. Bernard Lewis’s Local Heroes: Winchester 2000–2012 also features Sharen Gromling, W’75 and G’76, and Timothy Coyne, L’86.

Lee H. Stroud II, R, and Dreama live in The Villages, Fla. It is the largest master-planned adult community in the world.

CLASS OF ’65

Liz Morris Meador took her 8- and 10-year-old grandsons to see the Washington Nationals play ball and for a week at the beach. Her brother Gil, another visitor, enjoyed the fossil museum, the North Carolina Estuarium, and St. Thomas Church.

She planned a late December trip to England to focus on the Charles Dickens 200th birthday celebration.

She obviously had great expectations!

Leslie McNeal Barden and Luther camped and kayaked in Connecticut, Massachusetts, New Hampshire, and Vermont. They attended an 80th Miller family reunion and a granddaughter’s second birthday. Their new granddaughter, Sonia Valor Barden, born last February, was featured in the annual youngest and oldest reunion photo.

Jackie Harper Burrell continues to find the energy to work.

Ann Carter Carmody retired again July 27. She enjoyed a short trip with her daughter and grandchildren to Hershey and Lancaster, Pa. She and Jim visited Machipongo, Exmore, and Cape Charles, Va., this summer with their son-in-law’s family. Ann’s siblings and spouses went with them to Washington, D.C. In September, they were off to Ireland again. Now that she is at home more often, Ann looks forward to finishing chores and visiting with old friends.

Cynthia Shelhorse retired from teaching French and Spanish at Tuckahoe Middle School in Henrico County after 47 years. Her going away present was a pin in her femur after falling over a student’s laptop power cord in December 2011. Physical

therapy and walking helped prepare her for a trip to Hungary and France last fall. She toured campus with a friend from Hungary who was visiting colleges and decided she would love to be a freshman again. Cynthia saw Rachel Norman Graves in July on a short visit to Graves Mountain Lodge. She also enjoyed a minireunion with Nancy Puryear Spence, Barbara Vaughan, and Susan Gunn Quisenberry in August. If you would like Cynthia’s email address, please contact me and I will give it to you.

Brenda Netherwood Gibrall looked forward to hearing her 9-yearold granddaughter, Maggie Scott, sing the national anthem at UR’s homecoming game Nov. 3 and again at the opening basketball game Nov. 9.

Linda Holt Lilly and Ed celebrated their 47th wedding anniversary and granddaughter Eleanor’s 12th birthday in July by welcoming a grandson, Holt Alexander Lilly, to their family. Born four weeks early, Holt has caught up and is doing well.

Their son Kevin Lilly, L’97, a Marine Corps major, married Jacqui McBride in October. Jacqui’s children, Turner and Morgan, increased Linda’s grandchildren count. Kevin and Jacqui will retire to Virginia Beach as soon as his 20 years in the Corps is completed.

Son Ned’s 14-year-old daughter, Elizabeth, went on a mission trip to Haiti, where Linda and Ed have been in past years, and has been accepted as a Global Health Fellow for her final four years at Norfolk Academy.

Barbara Harton German announced that she and Bill German, R’63, babysit four days a week for Brooke Harton Sanders, who was born in November 2011 to daughter Sarah and her husband, Joe. Daughter Sandy is a pharmacist at Target and son-in-law Joe works for the City of Richmond. At the same time Brooke was born, Barbara was in the hospital with a severe kidney infection. She had emergency surgery just two days later to remove her right kidney. We celebrate with Barbara for her new grandchild and her recovery.

Barbara Vaughan, Linda Armstrong Farrar and husband Bob, Margaret Brittle Brown and husband Bill, Dianne Minter Vann, and Millie Bradshaw Hotchkiss left in August for a Baltic/trans-Atlantic cruise. The Farrars, Browns, and Barbara enjoyed the entire 28-day trip while Millie and Diane returned stateside after 12 days.

Susan Darden Schneider moved from New Jersey to California to be near her daughter Erika. Only half of her group showed up for a trip to Egypt and Jordan because of the major unrest in the Middle East.

Nonetheless, she and Larry enjoyed it and are now planning an excursion to Africa. Susan’s life is filled with family—just the way she loves it!

Linda Webb Taliaferro spent most of the summer planning a 100th birthday party for her dad. She made him a memory quilt by copying old pictures onto cloth and joining the squares together. After shedding a few tears, much sweat, and a little blood, she was ready for her much larger family circle to enjoy this special occasion.

I continue to enjoy serving on the Wicomico County (Md.) Board of Education, the SU Foundation Board, and my church council. I have added the Salisbury Chamber of Commerce Board to my list of activities. All the children visited last summer. During two of those days all three children and eight of nine grandchildren were here together. My 16-year-old grandson was working in Ocean City last summer and was here, although not on the reunion days. It is a wonder my swimming pool didn’t overflow with all the activity! My heart surely overflowed with the joy of that reunion. This October, I spent two weeks at my home in Naples, Fla., where I hosted my brother, Bob Jackson, R’58, and his friend Mei Shee for a week. Bob is retired from pharmaceutical research but is still an active skier. Although he no longer skis in Europe and South America, he still gives lessons for fun. I hope my other brother, Walter Jackson III, R’55, and his lovely wife, Jacqueline, will visit me in Naples next spring.

Walt continues to serve in the field of pastoral counseling throughout Kentucky, just as he has served in ministry since he graduated from Southern Baptist Seminary in 1959.

I know that I am truly blessed with two big brothers who guided me to Westhampton, many purposeful activities, a wonderful family, and enough energy to keep me going.

Thank you, ladies, for all the news you sent. Please keep in touch often.

Westhampton Class Secretary Carolyn Jackson Mears Elmore 4200 Union Church Road Salisbury, MD 21804 cjelmore@comcast.net

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Lynne Griffith Marks and her husband, Dick Marks, R’65, went to Peru and Ecuador last August and September. They went to Argentina and Chile to visit Patagonia in November. They are trying to learn Spanish via an online course through their community college. Lynn and Dick stay busy with house, church, and family, and enjoy it all.

Marty Cramme Ewell and her husband, Jeff Ewell III, R’65, spent two weeks last summer in the Baltic region with a cousin and Marty’s sister, Robin Cramme Perks, W’62.

They flew to Copenhagen, Denmark, where they spent two days before taking a cruise. Other ports of interest were Oslo, Norway; Aarhus, Denmark; Rostock, Germany and into Berlin; Tallinn, Estonia; Saint Petersburg, Russia; Helsinki, Finland; and Stockholm, Sweden. They enjoyed two days of private van tours with friends from Texas and another private tour when they were back in Copenhagen. Marty had rotator cuff surgery in September and planned a quick recovery!

Nancy Saunders Kaplon looked forward to her 50th high-school reunion in August, meeting up with two good friends and staying in Culpeper, Va., with a third. Eleven friends in Marietta, Ga., took their biennial European trip and rented an 800-year-old house in Aragon, Spain, a small town not far from Carcasonne, France. They explored the area near the house and spent three nights in Barcelona, Spain, a beautiful city with incredible architecture. She says she is still working four days a week and enjoys having her daughter Brittany and her family nearby. Her daughter Erica is still in South Florida, and Nancy visits as often as possible.

JoAnn Jamison Webster reports that she is “still alive” and getting better after moving in April and finally selling the house they had been in for 20 years. They planned a vacation to Sedona, Ariz., and the Grand Canyon last summer. If you would like JoAnn’s address, email, or phone number, contact me and I will give them to you.

She would like to keep in touch.

Judy Scott Masselam retired in 2006 after teaching high school chemistry in Lexington, Mass., for nearly 40 years. She has two beautiful daughters. Amanda is an assistant U.S.

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attorney in Boston who is married to another attorney and has three boys under the age of 6. Her daughter Kathryn is an ophthalmologist and is married to another doctor. She has a son who is 3. She is delighted with her four grandsons and has been amazed at how different they are from the daughters she raised.

Judy sees Pat Davis Green semiregularly, but otherwise hasn’t seen other classmates in many years. She looks forward to catching up. I would be glad to share Judy’s address with any classmates. Please contact me if you would like me to give it to you.

Mimi Proctor Games and Dale Games, R’64, sold her family’s historic Burleigh Plantation and moved to Hillsborough, N.C., where they downsized to 1 acre and have become suburbanites. I am also happy to share Mimi’s contact information if you would like.

I am looking forward to retirement in 2013 as Agritourism Manager in the North Carolina Department of Agriculture. As executive director of the North Carolina Agritourism Networking Association, I recently presided at the Southeast Region Agritourism Council at the Rock Ranch in Georgia, where close to 30 agritourism professionals from 14 states gathered to share information, successes, and solutions to challenges of farmers and vineyard owners who educate and entertain visitors.

I remain on the board of the North American Farmers Direct Marketing Association for one more year and look forward to the national convention in Portland, Ore., in February.

I have been invited to California, Florida, Tennessee, North Dakota, and Alabama to talk about how to start statewide agritourism organizations and may form a consulting company after retirement. Steve and I count seven grandchildren and four great-grandchildren in our family.

Westhampton Class Secretary Martha Daughtry Colston Glass 108 Forest Hills Court Cary, NC 27511 919-467-5809 mimiglass44@att.net Martha.glass@ncagr.gov Robert Miskimon Jr., R, recently published his fifth novel, Shenandoah.

It is a multigenerational story of two Virginia families in the first half of the 20th century. Miskimon’s other novels

include A Wind Is Rising, Plastic Jesus, What Death Can Touch, and Skagit.

Other Stories and Poems is a collection of a novella, short stories, and poetry.

His nonfiction work includes The Complete Guide to Building Your Own Tree House and Uncovered: Bare Facts about Nude Recreation. He lives on Vashon Island, Wash.

CLASS OF ’67

Fifteen alumnae attended the Westhampton Class of ’67 45th reunion last June. We shared stories, laughter, and even shed a tear or two.

We missed all of you who did not attend and hope you will make it to our 50th Reunion in 2017.

Carol Copley Axford and her husband, George, live near Atlanta, where Carol is an interior designer specializing in the long-term healthcare industry. She and George go to Honduras every summer to help with a preschool developmental program.

Mary Jane Barlett Smith lives in Staunton, Va., where she taught music for 34 years. She and her husband recently moved from the city to the county, and they thought they had found a house big enough to accommodate their growing family. However, with three married daughters and seven grandchildren (four girls and three boys) under the age of 8, she and her husband go to the local B & B when the whole family is there so the children can have the run of the house!

Mary Ann James Christian and her husband, Lewis, live in Oakton, Va. Their daughter and family (two grandsons, ages 12 and 16) live in Chesapeake, Va. In 2007 their son, Brent, died suddenly of myocarditis.

He was 32. Mary Ann teaches piano and recently celebrated 40 years as organist at Vienna Baptist Church.

Lewis is retired.

While Georgia Clarke Staub was not physically at the reunion, several classmates had the opportunity to visit with her virtually via Skype.

She and her husband, Theo, live in Basel, Switzerland. Theo is retired, but Georgia continues to teach English language and literature in the adult education program at the University of Basel.

She and Theo have three daughters; the oldest and youngest live in New York and teach at the university level. The middle daughter lives in Basel, where she is a psychologist in a local hospital.

All three daughters came to Basel this

summer to visit, and Georgia was very excited about all of them being together on the same continent.

Margaret Cridlin Moore lives in North Garden, outside of Charlottesville, Va. She is a retired elementary music teacher. She and her husband, Don, raised five children.

Margaret is a co-organist/choir director at her church, and Don is a staff chaplain at the University of Virginia Hospital.

Linda Cullers Chance lives in Richmond and is celebrating her 30th year selling residential real estate with Long and Foster Realtors. She doesn’t see retirement in her near future because she still finds it to be a fun, stimulating, and challenging job. (She would be happy to help any of you in the Richmond area buy or sell real estate. Just let her know.) Another pleasure for her is traveling with her husband, Chuck Chance, R’64, who races his 1958 Elva Courier, a Britishmade sports car, on the Sports Car Club of America tracks. On the calmer side, they also enjoy babysitting for their daughter, Catherine, who lives in Richmond and has a 5-year-old daughter and 2-year-old twin boys, which might not be that much calmer!

For 41 years, Betsy Dillard Cherry and her husband, John, have lived in Clear Lake, Iowa (where Buddy Holly, the Big Bopper, and Richie Valens played their last concert at the historic Surf Ballroom before the tragic plane crash Feb. 3, 1959).

She taught English and social studies for 33 years in nearby Mason City and has been retired 10 years, but continues to substitute in Clear Lake schools. Their younger daughter, Anne, completed her anesthesiology residency at Duke University Medical Center in June and began a one-year fellowship in cardiothoracic anesthesiology at Duke. Their older daughter, Jane, is a training manager for a company on the oil fields near Bakersfield, Calif., and has an M.B.A. from Duke. Both girls visited Clear Lake last summer. Betsy enjoys biking and usually rides 1,000 miles or more in the warmer weather.

Sara Hays Bateman has moved back to the Richmond area. One of her sons just graduated from UR Law School, another is a clinical pharmacist in the area, and a third son lives in Roanoke and works in the transportation industry. She belongs to the University’s Osher Institute and takes

several classes on a regular basis. She also enjoys spending time with her four grandchildren.

Jane Hoge Henson lives in Macon, Ga., with her husband, Bill, who is retired. After teaching highschool mathematics off and on for 13 years, Jane worked at the Georgia Department of Education in Atlanta as an instructional technology specialist. She retired in 2010, and began working part time for Information Transport Solutions in Wetumpka, Ala., where she is testing coordinator for the educational services division.

Their son Cole lives in Maupin, Ore., and plans to start a business providing company river trips. Taylor lives in Emigrant, Mont., where he has started Follow Y’er Nose BBQ catering business. Needless to say, Jane and Bill are frequent fliers to the Northwest.

Suzanne Ivey, W and G’72, taught English and history in middle school for five years and then taught world and British history at the highschool level for 26 years. She sponsored Battle of the Brains teams and worked with senior class activities. In 1998, she retired and returned home to Jarratt, Va., to care for her mother.

Her mother passed away in 2005, but Suzanne continues to live there. She often returns to Richmond to enjoy various organizations to which she belongs. Traveling is limited to car trips now, but while she taught, she made three trips to Britain.

Jackie Lassiter Wilkins, W and G’92, retired from St. Catherine’s School in Richmond after 40 years.

She and her husband, Dan Wilkins, B’66 and GB’74, live across from the UR campus entrance and enjoy attending all the football and basketball games. They have a son, Daniel, and a daughter, Anne.

Joan Odland Cocker lives in Arlington, Va., and works part time at Habitat for Humanity. She loves seeing her three children, five grandsons, and one granddaughter, who live in Arlington and Charlottesville, Va., and Minneapolis.

Bonnie Robertson Wheatley and her husband, Jack, live in Raleigh, N.C. They have two married daughters, one of whom lives in the Richmond area and another in Raleigh. Bonnie is a retired public school librarian and director of volunteer services at Meredith College. She enjoys the extra time retirement affords her to spend with her family both in

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Raleigh and at their beach cottage.

Brownie Sales Hamilton has recently moved back to Williamsburg, Va., and continues to work as a grant writer for nonprofit organizations.

Her son Bryan writes for Saturday Night Live. Her son Reed writes for the New York Post and was married last summer in England.

Martha Anne Wholey Garrison retired in June from working in the local school library in Roanoke, Va., where she and her husband live. She has continued painting and really enjoys it, especially now that she has more time to spend doing it. In between their travels abroad they often visit their six grandchildren, who live in the Richmond and Williamsburg, Va., areas.

Mary-Bo Willis Gassman retired from teaching piano after 25 years but continues to sing in the Richmond Symphony Chorus. She and Ken Gassman, B, have seven grandchildren. Four live in Richmond, and the three who were formerly in France are now in Clemmons, N.C. Mary-Bo had the privilege of singing in Symphony Chorus with Ann Whitfield Carter, W’90, the daughter of Pat Rainwater Whitfield, W and G’84.

Our class is looking for a permanent class secretary. It is a rewarding and enjoyable position. If you might be interested, please contact the Office of Alumni and Career Services for more information at 804-289-8026, or at alumniandcareerservices @richmond.edu.

Acting Class Secretary Jane Hoge Henson 1678 Greentree Parkway Macon, GA 31220 jane.henson@gmail.com

CLASS OF ’68

Reunion Reminder May 31–June 2, 2013 For more information, email reunion @richmond.edu or call 804-289-8030 or 800-480-4774, option 8.

CLASS OF ’70

Ann Marie Pearson Wood and Reggie Wood, R’69, had a fantastic month dog-sledding on a glacier in Alaska, traveling above the Arctic Circle, fishing for halibut, and watching grizzlies fishing for salmon at Brooks Falls from just 10 feet away. They still enjoy Roanoke, Va., when they are not on

one of these adventures.

Pat Connell Brady, W and G’74, and her husband, Kirk Brady, B’70, are the proud grandparents of Thomas Amory. Their daughter, Lauren Brady Carroll, L’05, and her husband, Seth, live in Richmond, so they get to see them often.

K.C. Clinedinst Swallow and Steve Swallow, R’69, celebrated the birth of their first grandchild, Anna Mabel, who was born April 17, to son Clint and his wife, Meredith.

Jo Burnette Cooper and Steve completed their vacation house in Healdsburg, Calif. It’s an interesting concept house, mostly built in an old submarine factory in Vallejo, Calif., and is totally green. I think a trip to wine country is definitely in order!

Linda Weinstein Andrews has a great-nephew, Carter Harrison Weinstein. Carter’s proud parents are Linda’s nephew Nathan Weinstein and his wife, Leigh Anne Collier Weinstein, ’04. He is growing like a weed and is already wearing Spider gear. Linda and her husband traveled to Savannah, Ga., and Charleston, S.C., last winter and thoroughly enjoyed eating at Hyman’s in Charleston.

Sally Andrews Gudas, her husband Steve Buckingham, R’71, and my husband and I have gathered periodically, since Penni Chappell Westbrook’s passing, with her brother Skip to make sure her memory lives on in our hearts and minds. This past August Donna Boone joined us and was a definite ray of sunshine, as you can imagine. She still mourns the loss of her husband but added immensely to our little “Penni group.” It is so wonderful how each of us connected with Penni in a different but meaningful way.

JoAnn Russell Nicholson, her husband, and Kevin and I all spend many hours together rooting for our favorite teams—the Spiders and the Flying Squirrels. We have thoroughly enjoyed season tickets at UR and went to even more baseball games than normal last summer. It is always fun with them, win or lose.

I ran into Sharon Morrissett Caldwell in the grocery store as she was preparing for a trip to China.

Her husband Bob’s singing group was invited to sing, and she was tagging along. I hope she will fill us in with stories of her trip.

Susan Cosby Frazier and her husband, Tom Frazier, R’72, went to

the Laurel Highlands of Pennsylvania last summer after spending time in Winchester, Va. They toured Fallingwater and Kentuck Knob, the Frank Lloyd Wright houses. They then went to Wheeling W.Va., and the Gervasi Vineyard in Canton, Ohio, where her son-in-law had a meeting.

She was enjoying the scenery and the “chore” of babysitting her grandchildren. Susan is celebrating 40 years at MVC/VCU Health System.

Milne Kintner led a weekend course in Amsterdam. She and Elizabeth Josephine Rooney Duval spent time together in Paris in June.

Milne and her daughter stayed in Paris at Josephine’s house. Perhaps we can have that Paris reunion next year?

Kevin and I spent two delightful weeks touring Paris, Burgundy, and Provence, France. I am in love with the country and would love to go back with all my “even sisters”!

May 2013 be the best year yet as we age like fine wine. And remember, “Carpe diem!”

Westhampton Class Secretary Rin Henry Barkdull 13638 Northwich Drive Midlothian, VA 23112 rinbarkdull@comcast.net

CLASS OF ’71

Carol Barker-Hindley and her husband have two granddaughters, ages 2 and 4, and live in Portland, Ore. They recently took a 12-day cruise around Tahiti. Carol speaks French with other Francophiles, as she calls herself and friends, and continues to do hula dancing.

Gena Shadwell teaches second grade at Jackson Davis Elementary School in Richmond. She recently had visits with friends and relatives in Naples and Panama City, Fla., and in Gwynn’s Island, Sandbridge, and Danville, Va. Gena has five adult children and five grandchildren.

Pat Burton Temples has joined an artists’ group consisting of people who use various types of materials, including watercolors and colored pencils.

Pat fits into this group because of her work as a photographer. Last spring she went with the group to Italy, where they stayed in a monastery and then went to Florence and Rome.

Donna Holmes Whiteway lives in Ashland, Va., where she and her family have an 1890s house and barn.

In 2010, she retired after 10 years

of performing in regional theaters; 15 years of teaching English, speech, and drama; and 15 years in real estate sales. She still solos professionally for area churches. Donna is married to Phil Whiteway III, R’74, the managing director of two national touring companies and three live theater seasons at locations in downtown Richmond under the new banner of Virginia Rep (formerly Theatre IV).

Bruce Miller, R’72, is the artistic director there.

Nancy Jarvis Brisbois spent a weekend on the harbor in San Diego with her sister, where they enjoyed a harbor cruise, shopping, and great weather. It was Nancy’s first trip to California, and she liked the lush green landscaping, which was a nice change from the dry, crunchy grass she has in her yard in Frisco, Texas. She and Bill planned a trip back to Virginia Beach for their son Bill’s wedding.

Linda Noell Harris has retired from teaching after 40 years. She spent the last 25 years teaching advanced placement and other levels of English at Monacan High School in Richmond. Linda now works part time with Virginia Advanced Study Strategies as the co-director of English. She and her husband, Bob Harris Jr., GB’86, have a daughter who recently married.

Anne Leigh Hawkes’ daughter and son visited her in Charleston, S.C., several times last summer. They checked out their favorite haunts and made sure to eat fried green tomatoes, she-crab soup, and other low-country goodies before they left. Anne’s grandson Liam and his family were recently in Charleston, where they celebrated his christening and her birthday on the same day. Anne and her daughter went to Ireland in September.

Margaret League St. Clair, W’72, lives in Houston and enjoys playing tennis, attending Bible study, and babysitting for her two grandsons.

She always has fun coming back to Richmond, where she and her husband used to live. Last spring she attended the Westhampton Class of ’72 reunion, enjoyed seeing everyone who attended, and spent some extra time with Cathy Woolcott Edwards, W’72.

Linda Yeatts Brown and Max went to Salt Lake City in June for a family reunion. Linda has a real interest in genealogy and spent several days doing research in the Family History Library, which is the largest genealogy library in

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the world. They have more than two million microfilms from the United States and an equivalent number of international films. While in Utah, they also took a scenic train ride through Heber Valley and Provo Canyon.

Adele Affleck Medved and Sally Harmanson Wallace, W and G’77, met for lunch last summer and enjoyed sharing memories and updates about their lives. Adele and her husband, Mel Medved, R’71, who has now fully retired, recently went to the East Anglia region of England, where her father was based in WWII. Their son, John, and his wife joined them, and they spent several days in London shortly before the Olympics capped off their adventure.

Westhampton Class Secretaries Frances Fowler Whitener 5501 N. Kenwood Ave. Indianapolis, IN 46208 frances.whitener@att.net Yvonne S. Olson 203 Saddleback Trail Hardy, VA 24101-3307 olsonhall@verizon.net Betty Conner, W, lives in Midlothian, Va.

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Judy Samuelson Shapleigh, her sister, and their families spent a week in Las Vegas packing in as many shows and side trips as possible. The only thing they didn’t schedule very well was sleep. After visiting the Grand Canyon and Hoover Dam, they went boating up the Colorado River, where the temperature in Lake Havasu City, Ariz., was 117 degrees but the river water was ice cold. They also spent a week in Duck, N.C., recovering from their high-octane vacation in Vegas.

Then jury duty called, followed by the political conventions coverage for Politico.

In August Diane Tarkington Biehn’s son Andrew, who is a commander in the Navy, took command of the guided missile destroyer U.S.S. Truxtun. Diane and her mom, along with daughter, Carrie, and her two children were able to go to Norfolk, Va., for the change of command ceremony. Carrie is a major in the Air Force Reserves and is the executive officer for the Corps of Cadets at Virginia Tech. Diane retired four years ago after teaching elementary school for 31 years but substitutes as often

as possible. She was sorry to miss our reunion, but had a wedding to attend in Maryland. I would like to personally thank both of Diane’s children for their military service!

Gwen Fletcher Duncan and her husband, Greg Duncan, R’75, attended the 40th reunion weekend activities last June, including the Saturday picnic and the evening reception at the Lora Robins Gallery, where they saw many friends and made new acquaintances with Chris Taylor, R, and his wife, Carolyn, who also live in Greenville, N.C. For Gwen the highlight of the weekend was attending the Sunday morning chapel service at Cannon Memorial Chapel led by Rev. Craig Kocher. She and Greg were married there in March 1973 and try to go every time they visit campus.

They spoke with Janet Ferrell, W’74, after the service. It was a perfect ending to a wonderful weekend.

Nancy MacCaffray Church has a new granddaughter, Maizy Quinn, who was born last April, to her daughter, Amy. Maizy has an older sister, Ada, who is 5. Nancy’s son, Jeff, has two sons, Geoffrey, 8, and Henry, 4.

Nancy still works for Bank of America and hopes to continue to do so for at least another four years. She has five dogs, a cat, and two horses on her 4 acres. Although she no longer rides, she still enjoys the horses as very beautiful “yard ornaments.” She says life is grand and that she is “so very blessed.”

Rachel Pierce Newell and Wayne spent two weeks in Ireland in July.

She sang at St. Patrick’s Cathedral in Dublin for a week with a group called the Piedmont Singers sponsored by a church in Middleburg, Va. They toured and found the people to be so friendly. Wayne is a fisherman, so he fished for two days in a lough (lake) near Trim while Rachel saw the castle where Braveheart was filmed and visited Newgrange, which is older than Stonehenge and the pyramids.

After 23 years in the country, Judy Johnson Mawyer moved to Glen Allen, Va., to be closer to family. In July she celebrated the birth of a new grandchild, Ryan Slater Mawyer, who was born to parents Taylor and Laura.

One of Laura’s first nights out without baby was a ladies’ night out with all of the Mawyer women and Tricia Mason Prillaman and the Prillaman women. Tricia’s daughter, Erin, and her husband are moving back to Richmond.

Thanks for sending such interesting emails. You have made my job an easy one.

Westhampton Class Secretary Linda Christopher Swartz 12015 Horncastle Place Henrico, VA 23233 nkswartz@comcast.net Martin Agency alum Dan Bartges, R, published a new edition of his book on color, which boasts a new title: The Secrets to Color Harmony. He’s recently given presentations on color at the Smithsonian American Art Museum and the Virginia Museum of Fine Arts.

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Reunion Reminder May 31–June 2, 2013 For more information, email reunion @richmond.edu or call 804-289-8030 or 800-480-4774, option 8.

Our thoughts and prayers go out to the family and friends of Virginia Reynolds, W’72, who passed away in June. She started out with our class but finished early and went on to live and teach school in the Richmond area. At the time of her death, she was teaching at Guardian Christian Academy in Chesterfield, Va. Donna Kingery Hudgins and Carter Hudgins, R’72, have settled in to their new home in Charleston, S.C. Their son Cary married last summer.

Carter then left for a trip to Ireland, which gave Donna time to recover and unpack. They enjoy time with their twin granddaughters.

Jeanie Nicholson Veith hopes to attend our 40th reunion. Her son Jerome earned a doctorate in philosophy from Boston College and teaches at his alma mater, Seattle University. He was lucky enough to spend the past year in Germany at the University of Freiburg on a Fulbright Scholarship. In June, Jeanie and Jon took a Norwegian fjords cruise on a coastal ship and enjoyed the “white nights” and clear skies. She then took a working tour to Kyiv, Ukraine, and followed up on the European Cup soccer games. Next she was off on a working trip to Ethiopia and planned to be back in time for the Oktoberfest and Christmas market seasons in Germany.

Ann Watlington writes curriculum and other activities at historic St. John’s Church as well as at the John Marshall House in downtown

Richmond. Her daughter, Carson, just returned from a trip to Ghana and London and Liverpool, England.

She sings with the Greater Richmond Children’s Choir, led by Hope Armstrong Erb, W’74 and G’80.

Last May just 12 miles from Linda Wilkins Muirhead’s home, lightning started a wildfire in a rugged wilderness area and burned almost 25,000 acres! They only had to deal with smoke in the mornings. Linda and George took a 30th anniversary trip in June to Anna Maria Island, Fla. Agnes Mobley-Wynne’s son, Clint Fuller, is the shift supervisor at Mas Farmhouse Restaurant in Manhattan.

Her stepson, Billy, and his family visited with their new baby boy, Lei, whom they adopted from China.

Agnes and David planned to spend Thanksgiving with Billy and Christy and their family in Denver as well as with Agnes’ daughter, Laurel Cadmus Fuller, ’05, and Clint.

Cabell Willis, the son of Susan Parrish Willis, W and G’77, is a second classman at VMI. He is a sergeant in the corps and captain of the crosscountry team. This year is his Ring Figure year.

Sam and I took our family trip to Pawleys Island, S.C., last summer and loved being with the grandchildren but returned exhausted! Traveling back, we came through some major flooding of the interstate around Roanoke Rapids, N.C., and were concerned about Betty Rodman Harris and Scott. Betty reported that the lower level of her house had a few inches of water but that it cleaned up quickly.

Please contact me and make sure you are on my email list for updates that can’t wait for the magazine. Mark your calendars for our 40th reunion: May 31–June 2, 2013.

Westhampton Class Secretary Spring Crafts Kirby 11735 Triple Notch Terrace Richmond, VA 23233 804-364-3787 SKIRBY451@aol.com Greg Yates, R, serves on the Shenandoah National Park Trust board.

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Susan Brock Harley is in her 12th year of teaching middle school as a reading intervention specialist in Lexington, Ky. In her career, she has taught English at the high school level

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and psychology at the universities of Kentucky, new Mexico, and South Carolina. She spent several weeks last summer in Grand Goâve, Haiti, serving on a work team with Lifeline Christian Missions. it was a truly rewarding experience. She is serving as a lay counselor at her church and is working on a master’s degree—her second one—in counseling psychology.

She volunteers weekly with UK freshmen at Christian Student Fellowship.

Last February, Susan joined Ur alumni at Xavier University in Cincinnati, including Terry Heilman Sylvester, B’76, to see the Spiders play basketball. Susan and her son, John, her brother, and her nephew attended the Final Four to see her beloved UK wildcats win the nCAA national Championship in new Orleans in April! in her “spare” time, she attends other UK sporting events and concerts and reads everything she can get her hands on. She wishes us all a happy 60th birthday but wonders how in the world it could be possible. through her job as executive director of Historic richmond Foundation, Mary Jane Massad Hogue saw my husband, Ted Chandler, L’77, on a richmond Chamber of Commerce trip to Boston, and she has seen classmates Hope Armstrong Erb, W and G’80, and Grace Robinson den Hartog. while on vacation she saw Wendy Church Sydnor. they had a great time ringing in the new year together. Nancy Heilman Cale, W’75 and G’77, invited Mary Jane to volunteer for the Ur Chapel Guild. Mary Jane and Janet Ferrell have reconnected there and at other richmond nonprofit endeavors.

Mary Jane has interacted with the University’s president, Dr. ed Ayers, pertaining to the discussions surrounding the 150th anniversary of the Civil war. She says he is an amazing speaker on the topic and that he brings a wonderful perspective to the conversation. Mary Jane now has both granddaughters and grandsons and says there really is gender difference, even at a young age.

Shirley Meadows Trible enjoyed time off last summer after tutoring world history and American history students to prepare them for the Virginia Standards of Learning tests.

She and her brother and sister-in-law took her mother to Fort Myers, Fla., in late May and enjoyed day trips to Sanibel and Captiva islands. in

Copy-editing Washington Judy Shapleigh, W’72 Edward or Ted Kennedy? Sen. Nelson of Nebraska or Sen. Nelson of Florida? Was Specter or Franken the 60th vote for the Affordable Health Care Act? Those are just some of the calls Judy Shapleigh has to make with speed and accuracy as the chief of Politico’s copy desk.

At a time when most newspapers are cutting staff, D.C.-based Politico is booming, thanks in part to a growing national obsession with an insider’s view of politics. Shapleigh signed on at Politico nearly four years ago after three decades at U.S. News & World Report.

Going from a weekly magazine to one that publishes five days a week when Congress is in session has been a “shocking change,” she says. Daily blog posts and online stories also add more copy to proof.

Conventions. Elections. Inaugurations. Policy speeches. The 2012 election was her first presidential campaign at Politico and continued the frantic pace.

“To just go into politics, I had a lot to learn,” Shapleigh says.

“It’s either gonna kill me or it’s gonna keep me young. It’s a really stimulating place to work.”

Shapleigh manages the paper’s style guide and fact-checks candidate and lawmaker names, home states, committee appointments, party affiliations, and esoteric nuances about Capitol Hill scandals. She memorized hundreds of names and facts so she can easily spot errors in copy.

To help reporters, Shapleigh writes a blog on style and usage and wrote a grammar guide called Perilous Pairs, detailing words that confuse writers. Being correct and consistent in style is important for a news organization, she says, because “you want people to trust you.”

“The work is never done,” she says. “You become addicted to politics. I guess most of the people here are obsessed. You put out the paper, come home and watch the debates and coverage, and read copy online for another hour as people are blogging. It’s a long day.”

—Catherine Amos

June, she enjoyed a family vacation to Corolla, n.C. Donna Higginbotham Rosser is enjoying retirement after 32 years teaching math. She looks forward to frequent trips to new York City to visit with her son, Jay, daughter-inlaw, nicole, and new granddaughter.

Her daughter, Allison Rosser, ’09, lives in Seattle and works for world Vision. Donna traveled to Seattle in September to visit. Donna continues as organist/choir director at First Baptist Church in Altavista, Va., and is excited that retirement from teaching will allow her time to learn some new music!

Janet Ferrell stays busy with club activities and scorekeeping for nCAA volleyball. She and her husband, Mark Bearden, have traveled to Vermont, Hilton Head, S.C., and to Kansas City, Mo., to see daughter Meredith’s U.Va. club volleyball team play in the national club volleyball championships. while Meredith, a U.Va. junior, studied at Oxford last summer, the family visited her and toured the area. their daughter Melissa graduated from Dartmouth in June and is working in washington, D.C. Janet visited Carolyn Ridgway Cook and saw Betsy Ray Cobb, Sarah Hopkins Finley, W and L’82, and Susan Lindler Stephenson last spring. During the 2012 Lenten season, Janet and Princess Daniel, the wife of John M. Daniel III, R, joined the team organized by Betty Ann Allen Dillon, W and G’49, to serve lunches at St. Paul’s in downtown richmond. what a blessing! in April, thanks to a recommendation from Nancy Heilman Cale, Janet served as day chairman at the tuckahoe woman’s Club and introduced astronaut Leland Melvin, R’86. He was a wonderful guest speaker. that same month, the Ur Chapel Guild members were guests at the annual trustees dinner in celebration of 25 years of the endowment of the chaplaincy. i attended the event along with Diana Blackburn Whitaker, W’75, Michael Mahoney, B’75, and Suzanne Heffner Brown, W’75.

Pam Floyd Pulley and Glenn Pulley, R’73 and L’76, spent two weeks last summer in Kauai, Hawaii, hiking, kayaking, and snorkeling. they also visited Bald Head island, n.C., with their former exchange student from Berlin. they hosted a family reunion at wintergreen, Va., to

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celebrate Pam’s father’s 90th birthday.

Pam continues to practice golf and especially enjoys time spent with her art friends taking painting classes.

Leslie Lilley Kellenberger’s celebration of her 60th birthday year has included time with Sandra Sperry in Phoenix seeing stunning vistas and Frank Lloyd Wright sites; attending a Flying Squirrels baseball game in Richmond with Carol Daly Schreffler, B, and Bill Daly III, B; and attending Ann Gordon’s wedding. As a board member of the Neuse Riverkeeper Foundation, she continues to captain their dragon boat teams in festivals in New Bern, Oriental, and Raleigh, N.C. Sarah Hopkins Finley continues to promote economic and financial education for Virginia K-12 students as the executive director of the Virginia Council on Economic Education. Last summer, she spent a weekend in New York City with her twin 16-year-old step-granddaughters. It reminded her of a trip with many Westhampton classmates after graduation during which they saved at every opportunity so they could fit in as many plays as possible.

Sandra Sperry earned the gold for most time spent watching the 2012 Olympics! It brings back memories of going to the 1976 Olympics in Montreal with Rosalyn Reed. Leslie Lilley Kellenberger discovered how hot a dry heat can be when she visited Sandra in late June. Sandra is on her third year of creating a scrapbook album of 25 years of family vacations for her family. Given the amount of work it takes to find the pictures, scan them, edit them, organize them, and then try to remember details, and make three copies, it may not be done any time soon!

Hope Armstrong Erb and Martin are happy first-time grandparents to Lee Bastian Caldwell, born to Kate and Matt Caldwell. “Eema” and “Eepa” Erb dashed up to the Big Apple to see the newcomer, and Hope reports that even on the first day of his life, Lee was already singing with a lovely tone. It was a strictly professional evaluation, of course.

Diane MacIlroy Moncure had a wonderful 60th birthday with her son in Las Vegas. After tutoring math to almost 30 students during the school year, she enjoyed her summer and spent some time with friends visiting Hilton Head Island, S.C. Tina Marston Kurys had a big

teacher. Both her son, Frank, a senior, September. She began an intensive G’76, is one of three Spiders among and her daughter, Caroline, a sophovision rehab program, took her 17 profiled in a compilation of more, attend James Madison University. daughter, Julia, to Smith College to Winchester, Va., leaders. Bernard Roma Brodecki, lives in the begin her first year, and was one of Lewis’s Local Heroes: Winchester 2000– four crew members—two blind and 2012 also features Michael Foreman, Washington, D.C., area and works for Lockheed Martin. She enjoys traveling two sighted—to race a sailboat in the R’63, and Timothy Coyne, L’86. for work.

Blind Sailing National Championship Our deepest sympathy goes to the in Newport, R.I. family of Jean Anne Coldsmith, who Susan Lindler Stephenson, Steve Akridge, B, received the 2012 passed away March 29 after a five-year Carol Schreffler Daly, and Linda Ed Wagner Industry Leadership Award battle with ovarian cancer. Jean’s goal Jo Moses Mays celebrated 60 years from the Tire Industry Association. in life was to make a difference and to of life together (roommates do these He is executive director of the Virginia make her life count by helping others. things) in Tappahannock, Va., on the Automotive Association.

She succeeded spectacularly. Her career Rappahannock River. It was great fun Stephen Dodd, R, former startincluded work at shelters and crisis to share the latest news, relive good ing linebacker for the Spiders, was centers and teaching on a Navajo resmemories from our college years, and inducted into the Napa Valley College ervation (along with classmate Mimi watch the sunrise and moonrise! athletics hall of fame.

Kramer-Roberts) and in Germany. It Cindia Nunis Evans retired in was after earning a master’s degree in March after 38 years working in varicounseling at Oregon State University ous accounting functions for Reynolds that she found her true passion in the Metals Company/ALCOA/Reynolds Reunion Reminder schools in Jackson Hole, Wyo. She Packaging. Her husband, Morris, also May 31–June 2, 2013 worked in the school system as a counretired in March. Their future plans For more information, email reunion selor, assistant principal, principal, and include lots of traveling—including a @richmond.edu or call 804-289-8030 in the central office leading the district trip of a lifetime to Australia and New or 800-480-4774, option 8. in curriculum, instruction, and assessZealand in 2013—now that there are ment for 22 years. She was a champion no time constraints and no month-end John Bruce, R, B, is community news of early adolescents, providing advocacy closing schedules to get in the way. editor for The Recorder and lives with his through her strong vision for student Ted and I visited our daughter wife, Carol, in Highland County, Va. success and ownership of learning.

Becca Chandler Guillote, ’07, and Bob Ravelli, B, lives in London.

Jean was imbued with a sense her husband, John, in Alaska, where He was a volunteer “gamesmaker” for of adventure and a lifelong interest they are living and working for a the 2012 Olympic Games. He manin travel. She traveled extensively in National Geographic Explorer in aged the transport loading zone for the U.S., Europe, Turkey, Fiji, and Residence. We crewed for them for athletes, media, and Olympic family Southeast Asia. She had an amazing the first part of the trip as they sailed way of connecting with their boat from people and of makKetchikan, Alaska, to ing each person feel a Washington marina understood and apprefor the winter. ciated. Donations may If you are a 1974 Email classconnections@richmond.edu. be made to the Jean Westhampton alumColdsmith Memorial na and you have not Fund for Middle and received an email VIPs. This work complemented his High School Students for families from me, please send me an email background as an urban planner who stricken by illness, accident, or tragedy. and allow me to add your name to specializes in transportation planning. Checks should be made out to the our growing list! Let’s stay connected.

He attended UR London alumni Teton County Education Foundation Thanks! events during the games. (with Jean Coldsmith Memorial Fund Westhampton Class Secretary in the memo) and mailed to P.O. Box Laura Lee Hankins Chandler 1048, Jackson, WY 83001.

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Manakin-Sabot, VA 23103 Mimi Kramer-Roberts, lives in Westhampton Class Secretary lauraleechandler@gmail.com Herndon, Va., with her husband, Lil Holt Jefferson John. She enjoys teaching English to 11521 Nicholas Trace Court speakers of other languages for the Midlothian, VA 23113 Joaquin Garcia, R, a former Arlington Public Schools. Her son, Jeffersonfam6@verizon.net undercover FBI agent, spoke about Josh, is a junior at the University of infiltrating the New York City mob Mary Washington, and her daughter, Gambino family at the National Molly, is a senior in high school.

Museum of Organized Crime and Susan Dunsing Ashby, and her Reunion Reminder Law Enforcement in Las Vegas. While husband, Frank, live in Richmond, May 31–June 2, 2013 with the FBI, Garcia led more than where she is the associate director of For more information, email reunion 100 operations in 24 years.

Cougar Care at Collegiate School. Her @richmond.edu or call 804-289-8030 Sharen Gromling, W’75 and daughter, Megan, is a middle school or 800-480-4774, option 8.

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warner School of education and the University of rochester Medical Center’s department of pediatrics.

Jeff Tinkham, B, earned his law degree from U.Va. and opened the tinkham Law Group in norfolk, Va., where he handles mergers and acquisitions, commercial real estate transactions, and estate planning matters. He and his wife, Denise, have a son who is a sophomore at Baylor University and a son who is a junior in high school.

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Reunion Reminder May 31–June 2, 2013 For more information, email reunion @richmond.edu or call 804-289-8030 or 800-480-4774, option 8.

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Otis J. White is the faculty chair of business, management, and public administration at rio Salado College in tempe, Ariz. rio Salado is the largest online public college in the U.S. His research interests include entrepreneurship education and the effects of public policy on business start-ups.

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Peter Frane, R, is treasurer of Marian Middle School, a Catholic school for disadvantaged girls in St. Louis. He is president of Olympic Marine.

Timothy Coyne, L’86, is one of three Spiders among 17 profiled in a compilation of winchester, Va., leaders. Bernard Lewis’s Local Heroes: Winchester 2000–2012 also features Sharen Gromling, W’75 and G’76, and Michael Foreman, R’63.

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in July, Eric Hurlocker, R and L’92, opened the firm GreeneHurlocker in richmond. the firm provides a broad range of energy, regulatory, and commercial services for companies throughout Virginia and the midAtlantic.

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Reunion Reminder May 31–June 2, 2013 For more information, email reunion @richmond.edu or call 804-289-8030 or 800-480-4774, option 8.

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Disability transition expert Martha Mock, W, received the 2012 Marc Gold innovative Practices in transition Award from the Division on Career Development and transition. She is an assistant professor with joint appointments at the

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Minding the gap Brett Wigdortz, ’95 Brett Wigdortz walked into one of the largest secondary schools in West London as a consultant for a pro bono project on how businesses could better support disadvantaged schools.

He walked out knowing there was much more he could do.

Wigdortz had no experience with education or public policy. He had only recently moved to Britain and had no professional network.

But he had a vision for improving school performance: recruit students with leadership potential, have them complete a residential training program, and ask them to make a two-year commitment to teaching. In 2002, Wigdortz resigned from his consulting job to found Teach First.

“In some ways it was a deliberate sleight of hand,” he writes in his recent book, Success Against the Odds. “No pressure, just a twoyear commitment. In reality, I was convinced that the graduates would make it a lifetime one.”

Today, more than half of Teach First’s graduates continue to teach in low-income community schools, while others continue a commitment to education equality through business, public policy, and social organizations.

The early years weren’t easy. Wigdortz faced an uphill battle to secure funding, convince school ministers of the program’s value, and ensure each graduate was adequately trained.

A decade later, no one is questioning the success of Teach First. The organization has placed more than 4,000 teachers in disadvantaged schools. It is the largest graduate recruiter in the country, and it works with more than 500 schools, tens of thousands of young students, and dozens of universities and businesses.

“It’s been a great decade of learning and improving,” Wigdortz says. “The problem of educational disadvantage is so deep and historic, and encompasses so many difficult issues, that it’s hard to make sufficient progress. Every time I see children not receiving the education they need to make the most of their life chances, it makes me realize how far all of us still have to go.”

—Kim Catley

David Kreiling is the new director of benefits administration for Coventry Healthcare. He and his wife, Melanie Farman Kreiling, have four children and live in wexford, Pa.

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Justin McAlister is assistant professor of biology at Holy Cross. His research interests include marine larval and invertebrate biology, evolutionary ecology, and ecotoxicology.

Kyle Herbert, ’96, is author of a new textbook, Hospital Reimbursement: Concepts and Principles, an analysis of financial models and reimbursement methods in the complex field of hospital accounting. He lives in Lexington, S.C. Blair Flynn Petrillo and her husband, nathan, have two children: a 3-year-old daughter, Lia, and a son, Gabriel edward, who was born Jan. 24, 2012.

Mary Beth Laing Romani is chief strategy officer for integrity Management Consulting, which she founded with her husband, Chris. the company has been named to the Inc. 500 list of the fastest-growing companies for the third year in a row and ranked 10th overall in the government services category. in April, they were named Vanguard winner by the Virginia Chamber of Commerce for being the fastest-growing services company, and were the second fastest in the state of Virginia overall.

John G. Unice and his wife, Michele, welcomed a daughter, Maren eve, May 21. She joined brothers Johnny, 4, and elias, 2, and sister ella, 4. the family lives in Pittsburgh, where John is senior counsel at Bayer Corp.

Dana Yobst is vice president of sales at Fluid inc., a digital agency, and creator of on-demand e-commerce solutions for retailers. She had been the company’s director of business development.

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Alison Lages Carlton and her husband, Josh, have two daughters: Winn, born in June, and Madelyn, 6. The couple opened a new restaurant, The Mill on MacArthur, on Richmond’s Northside. Alison continues work with Marriott International and as an independent representative with ACN, an international telecommunications company based in Charlotte, N.C. She and Josh enjoyed her 15-year class reunion with Jennifer Peck Maitland and Ed, Rick Edwards, Cynthia Cordova Edwards, and a number of other former classmates.

In August Shawn DeMers and his wife, April, adopted their second son, John Paul. Shawn is in the executive MBA program at the Owen Graduate School of Management at Vanderbilt University.

Chris Engels and his wife, Betsy, had their first daughter, Kensi Hartman, May 14. They live in Berwyn, Pa., where Chris is an insurance agent in the family business and Betsy teaches.

Brendon O’Neill married Kelly Shea Sept. 22, in Riverside, Calif.

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Reunion Reminder May 31–June 2, 2013 For more information, email reunion @richmond.edu or call 804-289-8030 or 800-480-4774, option 8.

Kimberly Killian Law received the Florida State Bar Young Lawyers Division Most Productive Board Member Award for 2011–12. She represented the Fourth Judicial Circuit for two terms on the Florida Bar Young Lawyers Division, which—with more than 22,000 members—is the largest section of the state bar.

Chris Smith is visiting assistant professor of law at Widener University School of Law. His research, writing, and publishing focus on medial liability and reform of healthcare payment and delivery systems. In June, his most recent article, “Somebody’s Watching Me: Protecting Patient Privacy in De-Identified Prescription Health Information,” was published

by Vermont Law Review.

Karen Smith-Will, C’98, graduated summa cum laude with a master’s degree in leadership from Lubbock Christian University in Texas. Karen

is president of a leadership consulting firm in Mechanicsville, Va. Sarah Graham Taylor and her husband, Jason, welcomed their second son, Jaxon West Taylor, August 28. He joins older brother, Graham.

Sarah serves as the executive director of the Oklahoma State Senate Democrats and coordinated 11 races for the Oklahoma State Senate. She and her family live in Oklahoma City.

Sarah Cole-Turner Vincent and husband Hal Vincent, ’96, welcomed a daughter, Caroline Laurence, Feb. 24, 2011. She joined big brother Ben, 4. The family lives in Tampa, Fla. Sarah is completing a master’s degree in speech-language pathology, and Hal is interim director of the Zimmerman Advertising Program and serves as faculty in residence at the University of South Florida.

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Andy Armstrong and Danielle Butt Armstrong, ’00, welcomed their third daughter, Caroline Marie, Sept. 2.

Her sisters are Abigail, 7, and Leslie, 4. Andy is the principal of John Rolfe Middle School in Henrico, Va. Joy Shortlidge Dolan and Brian C. Dolan live in New York, N.Y., with their son, Keegan Harvey, who was born Feb. 21, 2012.

Meredith Fretz Merino and her husband, Steve, have two sons: Luke, 4, and Colin John, who was born June 30. Meredith is assistant township manager and zoning officer for Middletown Township, Pa. Jeanne Cassady Van Ronzelen and her husband, Mark, have a son, Henry Haxton, who was born Sept.

21, 2011. The family lives near Philadelphia.

Megan Katherine Winkler, the daughter of Jodie Eicher Winkler and her husband, Matthew, was born Sept. 13, 2011.

Knierim, Susan Howson, G’08, and Virginia Tech graduate Kate Bredimus have opened the full-service branding and advertising agency Bayonet in Richmond.

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Nicole DeFlumere DiVirgilio and her husband welcomed their first children, twins Layton Michael and Melania Bryn, March 20.

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Kate Stluka married Brian Daniels in New Canaan, Conn., Oct. 15, 2011. Mollie Eaton Christ, Heather Repicky Watson, Brenna Trauth Becker, and Kate Wheeler were in the wedding party. The couple lives in New York City, where Kate is director of event marketing at UBS and Brian is a senior producer at R/GA. Timothy Patrick Sullivan earned a master’s degree in labor studies from the University of Massachusetts at Amherst in February. On June 16, he married Beth Viskovicz. Dominick Quartuccio, ’01, was in the ceremony and Ashley Wakeman Pitts, ’00, and Tim Pitts, ’00, attended.

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Reunion Reminder May 31–June 2, 2013 For more information, email reunion @richmond.edu or call 804-289-8030 or 800-480-4774, option 8.

Sarah DeVoe and Ross Gore married Sept. 22 with many of their fel-

low Spiders in attendance. Included in the wedding party were Jamie Paulson Diaz, Jocelyn Rhoades, Nick Morales, Brian Pagels, and Cameron Snapp. This year, Ross received a doctorate in computer science from U.Va. The couple lives in Arlington, Va. Samuel R. Brumberg works for the Virginia, Maryland, and Delaware Association of Electric Cooperatives in its newly created position of association counsel. He provides the association’s governmental affairs department with legal research and counsel on a wide array of issues, with an emphasis on regulatory matters.

Matthew Bruning and his wife, Jennifer, welcomed their first child, Charlotte Grace, April 23. He is director of government relations for the Virginia Bankers Association.

Mark W. Dwyer won an Emmy Award last spring at the 55th Annual New York Emmy Awards. He and his colleagues won in the interactivity category for their project “9/11: A Decade Later” (newsday.com/911), which profiled nearly 500 Long Islanders. Mark and his wife, Amanda Hawthorne Dwyer, have a son, Jack Hawthorne, born Feb. 9, 2012.

Jim Morris lives in New York City.

Katie Krug Watrous and her husband, Michael Watrous, GB’11, welcomed their first child, a son named Henry James, June 3. They live in Midlothian, Va. Verena Leismann Weinstein married Ross Weinstein Sept. 8 in Virginia Beach, Va. Vanny Huot and Allison Rivera Guernsey were in the wedding party, and Mimi Lumeh attended.

The couple lives in Norfolk, Va.

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In fall 2011, Kim Kukulski Doyle and her husband, Patrick, moved from Boise, Idaho, to Morristown, N.J., when his active duty career in the Air Force ended. She is legal counsel for Investors Bank in Short Hills, N.J. The couple welcomed a daughter, Reagan Ann, Feb. 5, 2012. She joined big brother Brendan, whose godfather is Kim’s brother Chris Kukulski, ’05.

Carrie Fleck Walters, Hunter

Alanna McManus and Craig Weiss, ’04, married June 2 in Lambertville, N.J. Rebecca Zakian Carlson, Christina Letterese, Gabrielle DiBello Nader, Kaelin O’Connell, Mackenzie Winner, and Evan Abrams, Scott Reiman, Eric Zuncic, all in the Class of ’04, were in the wedding party.

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Kelly Thompson Davis and her husband, Paul, live in Moseley, Va., with their daughter Caroline, who was born April 14.

Wallis Beth Morris and James Edward Morris, ’03, married July 21 in Steamboat Springs, Colo.

Jaclyn Morris Bower, ’01, Crystal Fernandez Bave, Megan Sikorski, ’05, and Paul Doran, ’03, were in the wedding. Wallie and Jim live in New York City, where she is pursuing a doctoral degree in physical therapy at NYU and Jim is an attorney.

Jennifer White Swenson and her husband, Kyle Swenson, are parents to Owen Jeffrey, who was born Aug. 24.

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Jocelyn Bassette Blizzard and her husband, Linwood Blizzard II, welcomed their first child, Linwood, July 8. The family lives in Boston. Joycelyn is a development officer for Hunt Alternatives Fund.

Oscar Holmes IV is a doctoral candidate at the Culverhouse College of Commerce and Business Administration at the University of Alabama. He recently was named a Southern Region Education Board Doctoral Scholar and received an SREB Dissertation Fellowship Award.

Gregory Thomas Keohan teaches geography at Melrose Veterans Memorial Middle School in Melrose, Mass. He earned a master’s degree from Salem State University.

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Joe Leece is a regulatory compliance officer for Fulton Bank in Lancaster, Pa., the largest bank subsidiary of Fulton Financial Corp.

In May Thomas Occhino, GB, again took a team of UR hockey alumni to Las Vegas for the USA Adult Hockey Tournament, and they won once more!

Ten alumni, including Occhino, were on the team: Kent Foster and Bryan Evans, both ’04; Scott Celander, ’06; Grant Garcia, ’06 and GB’09; Stro Ashburn, Matt Callahan, and Matt Curtin, all ’07; Taylor Hastings, ’08; and Matt Improta, ’10. Justin Collins, ’08, could not attend due to a military commitment. Kerry Sallee, who lives in Las Vegas, attended as a UR hockey fan.

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Stage might Nedra McClyde, ’02 New York City-based actor Nedra McClyde decided early to pursue her passion for performance at Richmond. By spring of her first year, she switched from a biology major to theatre and dance.

By senior year, Columbia University and the Actors Studio Drama School had admitted her for graduate school, but she almost never left for the Big Apple at all. She had decided against both offers until an 11th-hour pep talk from a high school friend sent her repacking her suitcases and moving just a week before classes started at the Actors Studio. Today she’s still in New York getting steady work in a tough profession.

“I never thought I could make a living out of it,” McClyde says. “I was never really encouraged to go into performing as a profession.”

Her résumé includes writing and performing for stage, television, and film. Her TV credits span shows from Law and Order: Criminal Intent and Blue Bloods on CBS to 30 Rock on NBC. Last fall, she filmed commercials for Pillsbury and Captain D’s before flying to San Diego for a monthlong run of David Lindsay-Abaire’s Tony-nominated play Good People at The Old Globe.

McClyde remembers her first years as a trial by fire. She went into the field with very little guidance and no representation.

“It really does take someone else in your corner to get you in the room,” she says. “Usually it’s your manager or agent who gets you the audition. The rest is up to you and the director.”

Her agent helped land the audition for 30 Rock, but her friend, Keith Powell, who plays Toofer on the show, stopped Tina Fey after seeing Nedra on audition reels. His message: Fey should hire McClyde.

McClyde enjoys acting for TV, but her real satisfaction comes from playing roles on stage that are out of the ordinary and surreal.

“You spend much more time with your cast and your director,” McClyde says. “You have time to really get into your character’s world and understand what’s happening. And, of course, you have the instant gratification of an audience being right there live.”

—Paul Brockwell Jr.

Tim Clarke married Li Wenbin from China. The couple will have a 2013 wedding in China. Tim earned a GMBA from Thunderbird School of Global Management in April.

Chris Daffner and Whitney Koch, ’08, were married in Columbus, Ohio, May 27. Pete Elkes, Grant Hosking, Matt Raggi were in the wedding party, as well as class of ’08 members Caroline Hughes, Amanda Loderstedt, Sara Shangraw, and Sarah Villemarette. There were 47 Richmond alumni at the wedding.

Abby Dutcher Murray and her husband welcomed Liam Dutcher in May. Johnny Campbell and Liz Gillespie Lang are his godparents.

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Reunion Reminder May 31–June 2, 2013 For more information, email reunion @richmond.edu or call 804-289-8030 or 800-480-4774, option 8.

Susan Howson, G, Carrie Fleck Walters, ’00, Hunter Knierim, ’00, and Virginia Tech graduate Kate Bredimus opened the full-service branding and advertising agency Bayonet in Richmond.

Erin Kendlehart earned a master’s degree in medical science and certification as a physician assistant from Lincoln Memorial University-DeBusk College of Osteopathic Medicine in August. She lives in Richmond and works in obstetrics and gynecology with a doctor affiliated with Henrico Doctors’ Hospital.

Carolyn Stenzel is a librarian, educational technology specialist, and houseparent at Chatham Hall, a private girls boarding school in Chatham, Va.

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Fynn Glover launched RootsRated .com last summer, which helps users tap into the very best in local outdoor recreation across the U.S.

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Julie Rechel and Timothy Patterson, ’10 and L’15, married July 21. Emil Mentz, Daniel Rudary, and Jordan Walter, all ’10, and Mary Helen Sheehan participated in the wedding.

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1931 / Paul J. Forsythe, R, of Jacksonville, Fla., Aug. 25, 2012. He was a chaplain in the U.S. navy during world war ii and pastored several Baptist churches.

1934 / Katherine Brown VanAllen, W, of Hurley, n.Y., May 15, 2012. Her life was filled with a big family, serving her church, and volunteering at a Baptist nursing home in upstate new York.

1936 / Helen Emery Falls, W and H’76, of richmond, formerly of Bay City, texas, June 11, 2012. She entered westhampton at age 16 and went on to serve as dean of women and professor of missions at the new Orleans Baptist theological Seminary. As a missionary, she traveled to 80 countries on four continents. She was the first woman awarded an honorary Doctor of Divinity degree by richmond.

1937 / A. Broaddus Gravatt Jr., R, of Kilmarnock, Va., Aug. 20, 2012.

He served in the Army Medical Corps during world war ii and founded the first licensed clinic in Kilmarnock, Va. He also holds the record as Virginia’s longest-serving medical examiner, a post he held for Lancaster County from 1946 until 2000.

1937 / Winifred L. Schenck, W, of Jacksonville, Fla., April 23, 2012.

She was a retired schoolteacher who enjoyed travel and nature. She was a member of First Baptist Church.

1938 / R. Bruce Griffith Jr., R, of roanoke, Va., July 18, 2012. He pastored many Baptist churches in Virginia. After retiring, he became a member of Melrose Baptist Church.

1939 / Woodrow W. Glass Sr., R, of rustburg, Va., Dec. 28, 2011. He pastored several churches in Virginia for 30 years. He was an avid fisherman and a member of the Masons.

1939 / William A. Rothenberg, R, of richmond, July 3, 2012. He served in the Army Air Corps during world war ii. He worked in his family’s furniture company and acted in many community theater productions. He was a member of Congregation Beth Ahabah.

1940 / James M. Fredericksen, R, of Davidson, n.C., June 21, 2012.

He served in the U.S. navy during world war ii and later worked for Merck as a senior research chemist.

He completed a doctorate at U.Va. and taught chemistry at Davis and elkins College, Hampden-Sydney

College, and Davidson College, where he was on faculty for 33 years. He was a member of Davidson College Presbyterian Church.

1941 / Dorothy B. Harshbarger, W, of St. Albans, w.Va., June 22, 2012. She taught biology, physiology, and conservation. She was a member of the First Presbyterian Church.

1941 / Helen J. Hill, W, of richmond, May 17, 2012. She worked as a teacher and administrator for the Virginia Department of education.

1941 / William Henry “Rex” Jones Jr., R, of Midlothian, Va., Oct. 1, 2012. He served in the U.S. Army during world war ii. After the war, he purchased Saunders Oil Company and built a successful business distributing oil and construction materials.

He served on many boards, including the richmond-Petersburg turnpike Authority and Chesterfield County’s school board. He was a Mason and a member of winfree Memorial Baptist Church.

1942 / Archie M. Giragosian, R, of Boca raton, Fla., Oct. 28, 2011.

1943 / Florine Nuckols Claytor, W, of Jacksonville, Fla., May 19, 2012. She was supportive of the arts in her community. She was a member of the episcopal Church of Our Savior.

1944 / William A. MacIlwaine III, R, of richmond, formerly of Charlottesville, Va., July 6, 2012. He was a doctor specializing in internal medicine. He served as Virginia’s medical examiner and taught at the U.Va. medical school.

1945 / Julian H. Pentecost Sr., R and H’70, of richmond, May 31, 2012. He was a pastor of Grace Baptist Church and served as the president of the Baptist General Association of Virginia. He was the longtime editor of The Herald, the news magazine for Virginia Baptists, and received an honorary Doctor of Divinity degree from richmond, where he was also a trustee.

1945 / Anne Glazebrook Tompkins, W, of Virginia Beach, Va., March 9, 2012.

1947 / Jane Harp Davis, W, of Luray, Va., June 27, 2011. She was a member of Christ episcopal Church.

1947 / William B. Propert, R, of richmond, June 6, 2012. He served in the U.S. navy during world war ii. He dedicated his time to St. James’s episcopal Church, where he served on the vestry, and to the Virginia institute for Pastoral Care. He followed a life-

long love of the arts through his career in the richmond printing industry.

1949 / Charles P. Harwood Sr., R, of richmond, Aug. 25, 2012. He served in the U.S. Army during world war ii and practiced family medicine.

1949 / William T. Luck Jr., R, of rockville, Va., June 19, 2012.

He served in the U.S. Army during world war ii. He worked for Central Fidelity Bank as a loan officer for 32 years and was a member of Dunn’s Chapel United Methodist Church.

1950 / Charles H. Blount Sr., R, of richmond, May 28, 2012. He served in the U.S. navy during world war ii. He was a Mason and a member of Second Baptist Church. For many years, he was a statistician for Spider football and basketball.

1950 / Jean Rainer Rowe, W, of naples, Fla., formerly of Brimfield, Mass., Aug. 5, 2012. For many years, she owned and operated rowe’s Auto Parts with her husband. She enjoyed travel and was an avid bridge player.

1950 / Dorothy Maddox Sykes, W, of richmond, March 8, 2012.

1951 / Donald E. Harding, B, of richmond, Aug. 7, 2012. He worked for the Virginia Department of Corrections and was active in community theater.

1951 / David “Dick” Hensley Jr., R, of Martinsville, Va., Aug. 24, 2012.

He was the longtime football coach for Martinsville High School and a member of First Baptist Church. in February 2012, he was inducted into the University of richmond’s Athletics Hall of Fame.

1951 / Shirley Hall Murphy, W, of richmond, formerly of Buffalo, n.Y., June 15, 2012. Her family helped found St. Bridget Catholic Church. She volunteered at her children’s school and for more than 30 years with St. Joseph’s Home for the Aged.

1952 / Robert Lee Boggs Sr., R, of Ashland, Va., formerly of norfolk, Va., Aug. 22, 2012. He earned advanced divinity degrees from Southeastern Seminary in wake Forest, n.C., served as pastor to a number of Baptist churches in Virginia and north Carolina, and was the associate for ministry to church leaders at the Dover Baptist Association.

1952 / Charles M. Shutt, R, of Columbus, Ohio, May 6, 2012.

1954 / Thomas H. Markley, R, of Port Angeles, wash., July 27, 2012.

He led several episcopal churches, including 15 years as rector of historic

1944 / J. Ralph Noonkester, R and H’68, of Hattiesburg, Miss., Sept.

30, 2012. He earned graduate degrees at Southern Baptist Theological Seminary and, at age 32, became president of William Carey College.

Under Noonkester’s leadership, William Carey became the first private, historically-white college to voluntarily admit African-American students in Mississippi. He led efforts to rebuild the home of a local civil rights leader who died after his house was firebombed. He received an honorary Doctor of Laws degree from Richmond.

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St. John’s Church in Richmond, Va. He served as a naval pilot for four years before starting a varied career path that led to ministry.

1954 / Jane Gill Tombes, W, of Midlothian, Va., Aug. 7, 2012. She taught English and directed plays at the high school and college levels in Virginia and South Carolina.

1955 / William D. Deep, R, of Richmond, Oct. 1, 2012. He served as a medical officer in the Air Force.

He practiced internal medicine in Richmond until retiring in 2003.

He was a member of the Richmond Academy of Doctors and, after retiring, volunteered with Goochland Free Clinic and CrossOver Ministries.

1956 / Dorothy Godfrey Gill, W, of Petersburg, Va., Sept. 21, 2012. She was a real estate agent with Century 21, an animal lover, and a proud member of Christ and Grace Episcopal Church.

1957 / Walter H. Alpaugh, B, of Chambersburg, Pa., formerly of Manassas, Va., July 9, 2012. He served in the Virginia National Guard and later as a personnel officer with the CIA for 30 years.

1957 / Charles A. Chilton, R, of Fredericksburg, Va., July 25, 2012.

He was a pastor and early advocate for church desegregation. He was a missionary who started churches in northern Virginia, Maryland, and the Philippines. He wrote a religion column for the Fredericksburg Free Lance-Star.

1957 / Godfrey E. Lake Jr., B and G’69, of Winchester, Va., formerly of Ashland, and Richmond, May 28, 2012. He served in the U.S. Army and worked in banking.

1958 / Elinor Delong “Dee” Belk, W, of Fairfax, Va., Dec. 16, 2011. She worked as an educator for children with special needs.

1958 / Allen B. Bennett, B, of Sunnyvale, Calif., formerly of Glen Allen, Va., June 15, 2012. He served in the U.S. Navy.

1958 / John Louis Booth, R, of Munds Park, Ariz., June 30, 2012.

He pastored churches in Washington, Illinois, and Arizona. He taught at several colleges and was director of Paradise Valley Counseling, Inc. 1958 / Barbara Wilson Crumpton, W, of Warrenton, Va., formerly of Richmond, April 15, 2012. She worked in marketing for men’s clothing with Jefferson Manufacturing Co.

1958 / Edmund B. Gibson, R, of Richmond, July 4, 2012. He started his own realty company and later worked for Long & Foster as a senior broker. He was a deacon and elder at River Road Presbyterian Church.

1958 / John E. Jenkins, R, of Newport News, Va., July 21, 2012.

He taught and served as an assistant principal in Henrico County Public Schools before joining the faculty of the education departments at the College of William and Mary and then Christopher Newport University.

In retirement, he prepared taxes for H&R Block. He was a member of Hidenwood Presbyterian Church.

1959 / Deane Edwin Beamer, B, of Marion, Va., Aug. 9, 2012. He was a hospital administrator instrumental in establishing a community hospital in Southwest Virginia. After retiring, he cofounded a medical records consulting company with his daughter. He was a member of Royal Oak Presbyterian Church.

1959 / Darrel L. Hess, R, of Richmond, July 13, 2012. He worked for the Virginia Department of Corrections. He served in the U.S. Navy, taught and coached basketball, and was a member of Northminster Baptist Church.

1961 / Sidney J. King, B, of Richmond, Aug. 18, 2012. He worked for the Defense General Supply Center for 47 years. He was a member of Congregation Or Atid.

1962 / James E. Jarrell Jr., R and L’68, of Fredericksburg, Va., July 12, 2012. He worked as a chemist with Phillip Morris before pursuing law. He was a county attorney, a Commonwealth’s attorney, and commissioner of accounts for Spotsylvania County, Va. He was a member of Fredericksburg Baptist Church.

1962 / Darlene Anne Morgan, W’62, of Roanoke, Va., Aug. 22, 2012. She taught middle school students in Henrico County, Va., retiring as administrator at Walt Whitman Intermediate School in Fairfax County, Va. 1964 / Bonnie Higgins Arrington, W, of Greenville, S.C., July 31, 2012. She was an educator who taught math at middle and high schools. She was a member of First Baptist Church of Greenville.

1965 / Frank Andrew “Andy” Lasley III, R, of Stoneham, Mass., formerly of Staunton, Va., June 20, 2012. He studied dentistry at Boston

and Harvard universities and was a specialist in periodontology.

1966 / Stephanie Birckhead Wingate, W, of Henrico, Va., May 28, 2012. She worked for Anthem Blue Cross/Blue Shield.

1967 / Barkev Ben Baronian, R, of Richmond, Aug. 16, 2012. He worked for Altria in the flavors and quality fields. After retiring, he educated the public on genocide, working to make educational resources available to public schools.

1967 / John T. Kellam III, B, of Onancock, Va., Dec. 28, 2010.

1970 / Steven B. Nakdimen, R, of Atlanta, Nov. 21, 2011.

1973 / W. Booth Grier, B, of Onancock, Va., formerly of Salisbury, Md., Sept. 5, 2012. He owned Grier Tire Company and served as a trustee and chair of the Salisbury School Board. He was a Rotarian and a member of Trinity United Methodist Church.

1973 / Charles D. Hill Jr., R, of Appomattox, Va., Sept. 11, 2012. He worked for BASF Corp. and was a member of Liberty Baptist Church.

1973 / Thomas L. Siddons Jr., R, of Chicago, formerly of Richmond, July 21, 2012. He worked for Ryan Insurance Group, an AON Corp. subsidiary.

1975 / Mark D. Bryan, R and G’77, of Colonial Heights, Va., formerly of Mechanicsville, Va., Sept.

8, 2012. He was a coach, professor, and athletic director at Richard Bland College.

1975 / James C. Khoury, R, of Palm Coast, Fla., January 21, 2012.

He was active in his church and community.

1978 / Edward P. Godsey, C, of Jonesborough, Tenn., Sept. 27, 2012.

He worked in management for Phillip Morris and Chesapeake Packaging.

1982 / Kevin H. Dunn, R, of Alexandria, Va., formerly of Media, Pa., July 9, 2012.

1982 / Robert Sean Roarty, R, of Tacoma, Wash., formerly of Tampa, Fla., June 30, 2012. He served in the U.S. Air Force and worked as an investigator with State Farm Insurance Companies.

1986 / David Coale, R, of Norfolk, Va., formerly of San Fernando Valley, Calif., Aug. 12, 2012. He served in the U.S. Navy from 1990–96. He was a writer, poet, and painter who worked as a financial advisor.

1989 / John M. Flicker, B, of West Chester, Pa., May 31, 2012.

He passed away doing what he loved most: kitesurfing in Thailand. He was a private investor.

1991 / Daniel H. Johnson, R, of Norfolk, Va., June 8, 2012. After Richmond, he earned a master’s degree in international relations at Old Dominion University.

1992 / Christopher H. Bushong, R, of Richmond, July 25, 2012. He was an insurance agent with State Farm and volunteered with the American Heart Association.

1996 / Gargi Pahuja, of New York, formerly of Richmond, July 27, 2012. She was a public health advocate who lived 27 years longer than doctors expected when she was diagnosed with a rare blood disorder as a child.

2005 / David Haas, of Brunswick, Maine, July 28, 2012. He was a captain in the U.S. Army. He served two tours in Iraq and was serving a third in South Korea.

Trustee

Richard Watkins “Dick” Wiltshire, of Richmond, May 29, 2012. He served as a captain in the Marines during World War II and was a member of the honor guard at Franklin Delano Roosevelt’s funeral.

He worked for Home Beneficial Life Insurance Co., serving as president and retiring as chairman of the board.

He was a charter member of River Road Presbyterian Church.

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Anne L. Hasselback, of Richmond, Aug. 3, 2012. She worked 18 years at the law school, retiring as an administrative assistant in its career services office.

Judith Ann “Judy” Meyer, of Powhatan, Va., June 9, 2012. She began serving as an administrative assistant in the law school’s admissions office in 1999.

Howard B. “Buddy” Norton, of Richmond, Oct. 1, 2012. He was a former Marine who served the University as a police officer, assistant chief of police, and interim chief of police from 1983 to early 2012. He requested that everyone attending his funeral wear Spider red.

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IF THESE PAGES COULD TALK When the first issue of this magazine rolled off the presses in 1936, its masthead read “The Alumni Bulletin.” The name was only temporary, an article explained; alumni would suggest something better. It stuck until 1971.

More than the name has changed over the publication’s lifespan. I should know. On a bookshelf opposite my desk are 11 faded green cardboard boxes containing the magazine’s entire archive, my inheritance when I began occupying a Puryear Hall office earlier this year as editor. As I thumb through the pages of this remarkable gift, their scent is musty, like long-lost memories.

The publication’s purpose, President F.W. Boatwright explained in a column in the inaugural issue, was to assure alumni “that the little college from which he graduated has kept pace with the march of progress and is a far better institution than when he was a student.”

Sufficiently knowledgeable about the institution, alumni “will send us their sons and daughters,” he continued.

“They will commend the University to other possible students, and they will give us the money we need.” The institution, in return, “must ever strive to be worthy to receive their more gifted sons and daughters.”

Consider the year in which he wrote those words. In 1936, the Nazis

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reoccupied the Rhineland; the coming war would worldwide claim 60 million souls, give or take, within the decade. At home, recovery from the Great Depression was ongoing, uncertain, and contentious.

Readers didn’t find any indication of this wider world in the first issue’s pages. Those who opened the cover found a Page 1 story about a $500,000 fundraising campaign for a central library (now Boatwright) and a women’s gymnasium (now Keller Hall). All eight pages have a familiar feel: stories of alumni accomplishments (a weatherman to Charles Lindbergh, an archivist for the state of Pennsylvania), messages from administrators, and invitations to homecoming.

The back cover has surprised everyone to whom I’ve shown it. There, an illustrated, impossibly handsome young couple under a starless sky is lighting Chesterfield cigarettes. “A match can tell you a lot,” the advertisement suggests, suggestively. Social attitudes about smoking might have shifted, but comehither marketing strategies endure.

Continuity and change nestle side by side throughout the issues that follow. Students learn and graduate; alumni build families, careers, and communities; and class notes ebb and flow. Around them and through them, the institution changes, too. As the

University looks increasingly forward and outward, so does the magazine.

Over time, students, faculty, and alumni in these pages look and dress differently, and speak of new realities, even as they cradle timeless hopes.

As the covers below show, the magazine has changed its look and feel every bit as much as hair lengths and hemlines have gone up and down.

The cover looked far different when FDR crushed Alf Landon than when Neil Armstrong stepped on the moon or the World Trade Towers fell.

In the months ahead, we’re taking another fresh look at the magazine.

Our goal is to make it more relevant, thought-provoking, and satisfying to read, and more beautiful to look at; to move it, as one alumna suggested, from her obliged-to-read pile to her pleasure read pile. We expect to roll out a new magazine as the Class of 2017 arrives this fall. Our goal would be familiar to Dr. Boatwright: to reflect an institution ever striving to be worthy of you, our readers.

—Matthew Dewald Editor

From left to right, covers from 1936, 1954, 1962, 1972, 2005, and 2013.

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